Bill McKibben speaks during the Sun Day renewable energy fair, Stuyvesant Square Park, Manhattan. McKibben has written books for 35 years, is considered an environmental and climate thought leader, ...

There’s nothing clean nor cheap about wind power. Without government largesse, aka taxes and credits, it doesn’t get built. Without rare earth mining and the “cost“ in environmental damages, it ...

In fact, the turbines were able to reach an efficiency of 53%, which is just shy of Betz's Law, a theorem that says no wind turbine would be able to convert more than about 59.3% of wind energy into ...

Go looking for wind farms in Spain, and you might quickly end up in Castilla–La Mancha, a region southeast of Madrid. This is the place where Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes’s delusional Man of La ...

Danish wind turbine maker Vestas has shelved plans to open its biggest factory in Poland, the company said in an emailed statement to Reuters on Saturday, citing weaker-than-expected demand in Europe.

"For almost 40 years I've been warning people about the life-changing dangers of a warming planet, and we're seeing its effects every day now," said Bill McKibben who wrote "The End of Nature," a ...