USA - Wind turbine perched atop Corning Tower

If you look close enough you may see something you've never seen before on top of the Corning Tower. It's a wind turbine.

From a distance you can barely see it. But take a closer look. On the roof of the 588-foot building is a small wind turbine.

The so called micro wind turbine was installed here last week. It resembles at 17-foot-tall pinwheel.

"In the nine days we've had it operating, we've had some very good wind conditions just like today," Office of General Services Commissioner John Egan said. "We've saved around 50 kilowatt hours."

It produces 1.5 kilowatts of electricity when spinning at full capacity. But that's just a drop in the bucket. State workers in the Corning Tower use thousands and thousands of kilowatts of energy everyday.

So this small wind turbine is a pilot project -- a small step to achieving big dreams.

"If we can do it here...we can do it in other buildings," Egan said.

The point is to see how these small turbines work in city settings to test the feasibility of larger urban wind-energy programs.