The increase in the price of oil is driving energy production into the wind. West Texas is now one of the largest wind fields in the world.http://www.newser.com/2008 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorThu, 20 Nov 2008 4:40:18 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/41971/green-energy-jobs-will-they-save-the-economy.html?refid=rss_all_defaultBarack Obama's ambitious plans to use green energy investment to rev up the economy are igniting fierce debate over the math behind them, the Wall Street Journal writes. The president-elect says $150 billion in investment will create five million jobs over the next decade, in construction and installation. Critics charge that the plan doesn’t take into account jobs lost elsewhere in the energy industry.http://www.newser.com/story/41971/green-energy-jobs-will-they-save-the-economy.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThu, 06 Nov 2008 22:52:20 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/39598/native-americans-seek-wealth-from-the-wind.html?refid=rss_all_defaultNative Americans own some of America's most wind-rich land, and tribal leaders in South Dakota and elsewhere are working to harness the natural power to cash in on the alternative energy boom, the New York Times reports. If they are successful, the projects could work transformations similar to those casinos did elsewhere. "The same thing that brought the buffalo brings the wind,” said a leader of the Rosebud Sioux. "The wind is a gift."http://www.newser.com/story/39598/native-americans-seek-wealth-from-the-wind.html?refid=rss_all_defaultFri, 10 Oct 2008 6:32:26 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/38301/dont-breeze-into-billion-dollar-wind-projects.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWind promises a practical source of renewable energy, but if the US doesn’t develop it properly, it’ll face another ethanol-like morass, warns Matthew Quirk in the Atlantic . Efforts like T. Boone Pickens’ $10 billion Texas wind farm are misguided. “Wind power is unlikely to cause a global food crisis,” Quirk writes. “But heedless investment in it may provoke blowback of a different sort.”http://www.newser.com/story/38301/dont-breeze-into-billion-dollar-wind-projects.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThu, 25 Sep 2008 10:32:46 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/36500/crowded-northeast-looks-offshore-for-wind.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThe Northeast is the most promising region of the US for major development of wind power, the Wall Street Journal reports, with large coastal cities close to strong offshore winds and a shallow continental shelf good for erecting turbines. The federal government is getting ready to lease 10 tracts of the outer shelf to companies primed to build wind farms; construction could start within 5 years.http://www.newser.com/story/36500/crowded-northeast-looks-offshore-for-wind.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWed, 03 Sep 2008 7:50:52 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/35908/outdated-power-grid-blowing-wind-energy-hopes-experts.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThe nation's outdated and congested power grid is putting a damper on plans to expand renewable energy programs, the New York Times reports. Generating power from the wind and sun is becoming easier—but getting the power to consumers who live far from the country's windiest and sunniest places remains a problem.http://www.newser.com/story/35908/outdated-power-grid-blowing-wind-energy-hopes-experts.html?refid=rss_all_defaultTue, 26 Aug 2008 23:23:09 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/35304/mayor-aims-to-make-big-apple-windmill-city.html?refid=rss_all_defaultMayor Mike Bloomberg has unveiled a bold plan to harness alternative energy to power New York City, the New York Times reports. The mayor is calling for windmills to be built on the city's bridges and skyscrapers, and for offshore wind farms to be created that could supply 10% of the city's electricity in 10 years. Bloomberg has asked companies for proposals for renewable energy projects.http://www.newser.com/story/35304/mayor-aims-to-make-big-apple-windmill-city.html?refid=rss_all_defaultTue, 19 Aug 2008 23:12:44 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/35106/windmills-pay-the-rent-but-spark-rage-in-ny.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWind turbines are cropping up in rural New York state and threatening to pull communities apart, the AP reports. The state's largest wind energy project is worth $400 million and powers 100,000 homes; farmers get paid up to $6,600 per turbine per year to offset the sight and sound of massive spinning blades. But some families and neighbors are at odds over whether the money is worth it.http://www.newser.com/story/35106/windmills-pay-the-rent-but-spark-rage-in-ny.html?refid=rss_all_defaultSun, 17 Aug 2008 15:40:08 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/34791/mccain-strikes-out-on-renewable-energy.html?refid=rss_all_defaultJohn McCain's tough talk on energy has been undercut by his failure to vote on a vital renewable energy bill, Thomas L. Friedman writes in the New York Times . The bill, which has failed yet again to pass, would have extended tax credits for wind and solar projects, but McCain's absence—for the eighth time—is helping to stall those projects, and holding up thousands of jobs.http://www.newser.com/story/34791/mccain-strikes-out-on-renewable-energy.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWed, 13 Aug 2008 1:32:34 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/34261/pickens-energy-plan-lacking-in-actual-detail.html?refid=rss_all_defaultT. Boone Pickens has plenty of ideas about making the US less dependent on oil, and he has plenty of reasons why. But broad generalizations about using wind power to generate electricity and natural gas to power cars doesn’t offer enough “how-to-get-it-done” detail to make it an actual plan, Holman W. Jenkins Jr. writes in the Wall Street Journal .http://www.newser.com/story/34261/pickens-energy-plan-lacking-in-actual-detail.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWed, 06 Aug 2008 5:40:08 CDT