Times Square Begins Building Green Billboard
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The lights in Manhattan's Times Square are starting to go green.
Construction begins this month on a 35,000 lbs., environmentally-friendly electronic billboard which will carry advertising for the office equipment company Ricoh.
The billboard will be powered by 16 wind turbines and 64 solar panels, enough to light six homes.
The sign will not be as bright as the other billboards and it does not have a generator, which means it could go dark after long periods without wind or sunshine.