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Electrical Industry Setting Good Example on Energy and Environmentally Conscious Design
Energy codes are not new; the first energy conservation code appeared in the ‘70s as a reaction to that decade’s energy crisis. However, the major energy codes in use around the country, the International Energy Conservation Code and ASHRAE 90.1, have been primarily focused on the building envelop and...
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Fri, Aug 22 2008 2:29 PM
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baclawskiv
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Energy Efficiency
Gas Prices Down....But for How Long?
Anyone who fills up their gas tank on a regular basis has undoubtedly noticed that gas prices have dropped over the past few weeks. Even with this lull, don't let this drop in price ease your mind that they will stay that way. According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), under the Department...
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Mon, Aug 18 2008 10:41 AM
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Hansen, Dain
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Energy Efficiency
NEMA Member "Lights Up" Michael Phelps...
The buildings and architecture in this year's Olympics has been innovative and beautiful. Everything from the "Birds Nest" to the "Water Cube", each building has a gorgeous component to them. Even more impressive is the lighting on the "water cube", the same building...
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Wed, Aug 20 2008 9:20 AM
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Hansen, Dain
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CMS Gets Fire Safety Half-Right
While giving the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services props for promulgating a new rule to require the sprinklering of long-term care (LTC) facilites that accept federal Medicare & Medicaid funds , one has to wonder at the agency's logic of sunseting requirements for smoke detectors. Sure...
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Wed, Aug 27 2008 11:42 AM
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Owen, Sarah
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Fire Safety
EMF - the Phantom Menace
Is EMF Really out there? While you cannot see them, Electromagnetic Fields are indeed present all around us. There is even weak EMF when in an open field with no signs of civilization for miles around - the magnetic core of the earth generates such fields. Are the fields a problem - for most of us the...
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Wed, Aug 06 2008 2:52 PM
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gettmank
It's Not Just us as in US
NEMA Kite and Key award winner Rob Boteler, from Emerson Motor Technologies, spoke to a full room today at ENIE 2008 in Sao Paulo, Brasil about the development of motor standards and regulations in the US. One of the many things we can be proud of is that the US is a world leader in setting motor efficiency...
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Tue, Aug 05 2008 8:26 PM
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Hoyt, William
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Energy Efficiency
Down in the Dumps
Unless you've been living under a rock for the past, oh say 18 months, you might have heard that the housing market has seen better days. Recently, though, opinions have surfaced that it may have finally hit rock bottom and some signs of improvement should be coming within months. For example, new...
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Fri, Aug 08 2008 3:53 PM
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Lego, Brian
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Economy
Anticounterfeiting – UL go for gold
Underwriters Laboratories recently unveiled their latest holographic label . The gold hologram will replace the silver hologram that UL has used for the last 12 years. The UL holographic label is used on 32 common consumer product where the risk of counterfeiting is greater, including power supply cords...
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Wed, Aug 13 2008 12:25 PM
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Winstanley, Gerard
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Diagnostic Imaging Then and Now – What a difference a “generation” makes
With all the recent news and public interest in mammography and breast cancer detection, I remember back a generation ago, actually two generations ago, about an incident which affected our family, in which the timely and efficient use of diagnostic imaging could have made a big difference for all of...
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Wed, Aug 27 2008 9:05 AM
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Eaton, Richard
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Is Secret Ballot in the Workplace a Thing of the Past?
Secret ballots in elections are an underlying principle of democracy. That's why you just have to scratch your head when you see a bill to eliminate private ballots in union elections titled, "Employee Free Choice Act." The AFL-CIO gave it that name on the claim that it will "restore...
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Tue, Aug 26 2008 10:28 AM
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golds
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