BLOOMBERG WANTS TO USE NEW YORK CITY BEACHES AS WIND FARMS! HOW ARE WE SUPPOSE TO SWIM THRU THAT SH!T?

COPENHAGEN - Mayor Bloomberg toured an enormous set of high-tech windmills anchored miles offshore here - and said Monday he wants to build the same thing off the Rockaways.
"It's pretty hard to find any reason against it," Bloomberg said after donning a bright orange suit and safety gear to see the 91 turbines slowly spinning above the ocean, where they make up the world's largest wind farm, generating 209 megawatts of power.

Denmark gets 20% of its electricity from the wind.

"We keep talking about green jobs and green energy. Here's a chance to really do something about it," the mayor said. "We think there will be enough interest and developers willing to put money in and actually going and building it."

The city is working with state agencies and utilities on a 700-megawatt set of windmills - more than three times the size of the one he toured. They'd be located about 15 miles off the Rockaways, barely visible from shore. Bloomberg's environmental team believes the farm could be up and running by 2015.

"To see it actually in operation reminds you that this is not science fiction," said Rohit Aggarwala, head of Bloomberg's environmental office, who also took the tour. "It's quite likely we'll see something like that in New York."

The visit off the west coast of Denmark came as Bloomberg, Aggarwala and other advisers arrived in Copenhagen for events connected to the United Nations climate change summit.

He is scheduled to speak today at panels about New York's ambitious plan to cut its carbon emissions 30% by 2017, which other mayors said is one of the most far-reaching plans in the nation.

The City Council last week passed a version of Bloomberg's plan to require buildings to become more energy efficient, which would cut the city's carbon footprint by 5% alone.