In April 2009, Mayor Bloomberg signed a bill giving NYC the toughest laws against vehicular idling, with stiff fines for repeat offenders. Three months later, AP reporters caught the mayor repeatedly flouting the law, with his chauffeur and security detail sometimes leaving their engines running for an hour while waiting for the mayor. Bloomberg had to apologize, but ever since he's presumably had a team of engineers working around the clock to come up with a solution to keep his SUV cool when he's not in it. Well, they finally had a major breakthrough, and yesterday they did some beta-testing! As you can see from these photos obtained by the NY Post, they're experimenting with a high-tech solution that will enable the mayor to step into a pre-chilled, hypocrisy-free SUV. To be honest, the science at work here is beyond our primitive understanding, but to put it in layman's terms, it seems engineers have connected what appears to be a standard residential A.C. unit onto the rear window of Bloomberg's SUV.

Then, using a complicated series of "extension cords" and—no doubt—some sort of nuclear fusion, the A.C. unit will be "plugged in" to an electrical power source. At press time, it was unclear how many miles of extension cord the mayor will need to conduct official business within the five boroughs, but clearly this innovation will be an enormous boon for New York's troubled extension cord industry. sanyo ac heat wall unit(Rumors that Bloomberg was sourcing the extension cords from Malaysian sweatshops could not be confirmed.) 1.5 ton ac unit ampsSpeaking to the Post, Bloomberg's spokesman said yesterday was just an experiment, adding that "there is far less emissions corresponding to the power of a single air conditioner on the grid than idling a V-8 engine." jual ac portable bekasi

And by attaching colorful plastic ribbons to the AC's vents, Bloomberg's backseat is bound to be far more festive! Rangel wins primary, Jeffries beats Barron Never Miss a Story Get The Post delivered directly to your inbox By clicking above you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.Last week's brutal heat wave may have prompted some of us to panic and bust open a fire hydrant, but it looks like Mayor Bloomberg has taken his own approach to beating the heat with a bizarre contraption to cool down his SUV. The New York Post caught members of Bloomberg's security detail on Monday plugging a standard, home air-conditioning unit into one of the mayor's SUV windows, utilizing a handful of extension cords plugged into electrical outlets in order to cool down without running the vehicle's own AC unit. A spokesman for the mayor defended the unusual approach as a mere spark of innovation, "This is an experiment to be used on extremely hot days like the types we saw last week.

Even with the vehicles parked in the shade, the temperatures inside can quickly rise to more than 100 degrees." But really, if you were the second richest man in New York (and its mayor) would you hop into a hot car on a summer day? The effort follows Bloomberg's wrist-slapping in 2009, when the mayor's city-owned SUV's were caught idling for periods of at least 8 times from anywhere between 10 minutes to an hour. The Associated Press called out the mayor for the not-so environmentally friendly antics considering Bloomberg himself has loudly touted a strong green agenda specifically with an anti-idling law he himself pushed for. In May, Bloomberg was also exposed routinely breaking the city's strict helicopter curfews, when a man recorded the billionaire mayor repeatedly flying in and out of a city-owned heliport during off-hours designated to protect residents from excessive noise and exhaust produced from helicopters. Let's just hope Bloomberg figures out this whole charade prior to the next heat wave, expected to arrive as early as Thursday.

Bloomberg Bloomberg Anti Idling Law Bloomberg Suv Bloomberg Suvs Mayor-bloomberg-helicopterNo one knows how to merge, say road officialsYou couldn't make it up, but New York Mayor Bloomberg's latest contribution to a greener environment is to attach a full-sized room air conditioner unit to the side of his SUV.The low-tech solution to Mr Bloomerg's famous dislike of the heat in fact causes less pollution than running the vehicle's own air-condtioning while its engine is idle.And in full view of confused and amused tourists and passers-by, workers outside City Hall yesterday attached the familiar looking air-conditioning unit to a specially designed out-sized box on the passenger window of the New York Mayor's car. High tech or low tech?: A technician fixes up Mayor Bloomberg's room-sized air-conditioning unit to the the side of his SUV Mayor Bloomberg is known to hate leaving an air conditioned building and entering a hot car during the summer, but his environmental credentials take a hit every time his car is started and left to cool while it waits for his arrival.

Indeed, the mayor's two Chevy Suburbans have been put on cooling restrictions since July 2009 when reporters from the New York Post noticed them sitting idle with the air-conditioning on for several minutes at a time. 'This is an experiment to be used on extremely hot days like the types we saw last week,' said mayoral spokesman Stu Loeser of the air-conditioning units which will run on standard electrical plugs set up outside City Hall.'Even with the vehicles parked in the shade, the temperatures inside can quickly rise to more than 100 degrees.' In an effort to protect the mayor from his well known dislike of the heat, the air-conditioning unit will be powered from an electrical outlet rather than the SUV's own engine New York City has some of the strictest idling laws in the United States, with cars using their air-conditioning units only able to stand stationary with their engines running for three minutes.After Mayor Bloomberg was exposed as flouting the restrictions he apologised and seemingly set to work imagining a greener solution to his need to stay cool.'There is far less emissions corresponding to the power of a single air conditioner on the grid than idiling a V-8 engine,' said Loeser.New Yorkers meanwhile were not sold on their mayors creative solution to air-conditioning his SUV.'It's definitely not better

, that's for sure,' said Julian Hernandez from Queens. After falling foul of New York City idling restrictions for running cars with air-conditioning units on, Mayor Bloomberg's solution is ingenious The air-conditioning unit outside City Hall where it will wait to cool Mayor Bloomberg's car before he gets in When set up, Mayor Bloomberg will never have to worry about exiting a cool City Hall into a warm SUV again 'But I don't know if its worse cause I'm not sure how the mechanism works but it sounds confusing.Another passer-by, asked for his opinion was equally nonplussed. 'I'm not sure if it really addresses the problem, but hopefully it'll start making strives to make green initiatives in the future,' said Jack Anderton from the Bronx.Last week when temperatures in New York hit the high 90's, Mr. Bloomberg visited the Bronx Works senior centre and called on all New Yorker's to turn off 'all non-essential appliances.''It only takes a couple of minutes to cool off a room,' said Mayor Bloomberg.