Even as renewable energy technologies like wind turbines and solar panels get cheaper and more efficient, demand for energy continues to mount in a world heading toward a population of nine billion people seeking energy-enabled lives. This means that long after strip mines and smokestacks are a memory, sources of energy will be a significant, if far cleaner, feature of Anthropocene landscapes. Here, dozens of wind turbines sprout along a Dutch dike that long ago turned one five-hundred-square-mile stretch of tidal flats into farmland. Flevoland, Netherlands.
