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ENERGY AWARDS: INCENTIVE TO
CHANGE
With rising energy costs and the United States' dangerous
dependence on foreign oil, politicians, businesses, and even
private citizens are all searching for answers to our fossil fuel
conundrum. Clean energy technologies have long been seen as the
way of the future, but obstacles to their adoption have always
been many, even in the case of tried-and-true processes like wind
turbine power. Now, government and private industry both offer
incentives to adopt this clean and renewable resource. Such
incentive programs as energy recognition awards or plaques can do
a great deal to encourage business and individuals at all levels
of development to embrace this technology of the future.
Wind power has long been with us, powering the early industrial
revolution and being utilized for the milling of grain or the
operation of simple machinery in societies throughout Asia, the
Near East, and Europe. Modern wind turbine power uses the same
age-old principles as the picturesque windmills of the Dutch
countryside, converting the kinetic power of wind into the
mechanical process of the spinning turbines. Such turbines
function as generators, further converting the mechanical power of
their spin into electricity. These efficient generators can be
used in large wind farms that tie directly into the power grid, or
even in a smaller form to power a private home. There is no one
best way to utilize wind turbine technologies -- another reason
why awards such as energy recognition plaques that recognize
individuals and business for breakthroughs in the utilization and
implementation of clean energy technologies are a crucial element
in encouraging the conversion of our power supply into a clean
energy format.
Wind turbine plaques are just one form of energy recognition
award, a way of recognizing new developments in clean energy
technology or improved processes that turn theory into reality. It
isn't only technological breakthroughs that stand eligible for the
energy recognition plaque, but the practical, real world
implementation of clean energy solutions and business models --
models of development that will lay the foundation for our
conversion from fossil fuel dependence to sensible and
environmentally friendly forms of renewable energy. Wind turbines
are just one method of utilizing our planet's naturally renewable
resources in an effective and responsible way, just as the
encouragement provided by energy recognition awards is yet one
more way to proactively address our society's increasing energy
concerns and bring about the transformation that will free us from
our fossil fuel addiction.
