Wind Powered Liberty: Victory

It's official, Lady Liberty will be running on wind power starting in March. Those of you who have been with me from the beginning will remember this classic PO-NYC post where I posed the idea for freeing lady liberty from the chains of fossil fuel:

What if we could power the Statue of Liberty with just Wind and Solar power?
...A Statue of Liberty that is energy independent and produces no harmful emissions into the atmosphere. This would be the best type of positive symbolism to assert America's path to energy independence....So who's with me? Let's start spreading the word and writing to some folks and get this idea circulated and see what happens.

And while I did get heavy traffic from many different sites including GE and I would love to believe that this all came about because of that one post, I realize that this idea is not completely novel. But it is still a victory for alternative energy and the "power" of a good idea who's time has come.

For more on this story head over to Greenbiz and Sustainablog.