Get a print-friendly version of this article . It s a quiet revolution. No slogans, masked mobs or smashed windows. The wind-power revolution has arrived. Maybe just in time.
Wind power can help.
It s growing 24 percent annually worldwide and could provide three million jobs by 2020, says the Worldwatch Institute . Meanwhile, employment in the fossil-fuel industry is shrinking. The economic efficiency of wind power blows away dinosaur power. Once built, a windmill produces clean electricity with little additional expense or input. And besides dirty coal, it s now the cheapest power.