![]() ![]() Acclaimed journalist and author of The Boom, "the best all-around book yet on fracking" ( San Francisco Chronicle), Russell Gold tells the story of this pioneer whose innovations, struggles, and persistence represent the groundbreaking changes underway in American energy. Wind energy was no longer funny it was well on its way to generating a substantial percentage of the electricity in the United States. Eight years later, Skelly helped create the second largest wind power company in the United States-which was sold for $2 billion. ![]() Enter Michael Skelly, an infrastructure builder who began working on wind energy in 2000, when many considered the industry a joke. Any transition from a North American power grid that uses mostly fossil fuels to one that is predominantly clean requires a massive building spree-billions of dollars' worth. We don't want to keep pumping so many heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere. We want to embrace renewable energy sources like wind and solar, and rely less on dirty fossil fuels. The United States is in the midst of an energy transition. ![]() In the ever more urgent quest for sources of renewable energy, meet the man boldly harnessing the natural forces that could power America's future. ![]()
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