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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...

Published Fri, Aug 22 2008 2:29 PM by baclawskiv

Filed under: Energy Efficiency

In the dark about shift to energy-efficient lighting

For the second time this year, the Washington Times OP-ED page contains a commentary that lashes out against the national transition to modern, energy efficient lighting (David Deming, “Fluorescent Light Bulb Folly” ). As a leading media venue for conservatives, WashTimes is generally effective in highlighting...

Published Mon, Aug 25 2008 11:20 AM by Kohorst, Mark

Filed under: Energy Efficiency, Environmental Design

A (Brief?) Sigh of Relief

With inflation hitting a 17-year high (subscription required) and foreign economic growth tanking (subscription req'd) (not to mention another military conflict breaking out ), things economic certainly could be better. Of course they could be much, much worse. The advance estimate for real GDP in...

Published Fri, Aug 15 2008 3:51 PM by Lego, Brian

Filed under: Economy

NEMA Staff attend DOE Smart Grid workshop

Two NEMA staff members, John Caskey from the Industry Operations and Eric Hsieh from Government Relations, participated in the Department of Energy’s Smart Grid Implementation Workshop. The objective of the workshop was to develop metrics for measuring progress toward the implementation of the Smart...

Published Mon, Aug 18 2008 11:18 AM by caskeyj

Filed under: Smart Grid, Electrical Grid, grid

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...

Published Wed, Aug 27 2008 9:05 AM by Eaton, Richard

Filed under: medical imaging

The technology bridge for wind energy transmission

Yesterday’s New York Times wrote about how the demand for wind generation is exceeding the transmission required to deliver that energy. While the article is correct that more wind can be integrated without new technology, intelligent systems (all part of the smart grid ) could act as a bridge during...

Published Thu, Aug 28 2008 9:00 AM by Hsieh, Eric

Filed under: Smart Grid, transmission, wind

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...

Published Wed, Aug 13 2008 12:25 PM by Winstanley, Gerard

Filed under: Anti-Counterfeiting

Celebrating DICOM

Last April, during a banquet in Chengdu, China, members of the DICOM Standards Committee paused for a toast to celebrate the DICOM Standard's 25 th anniversary. Or was it the 15 th ? No one really cared. All agreed that the establishment, in 1983, of the ACR/NEMA Committee (which developed the first...

Published Mon, Aug 25 2008 1:24 PM by Clark, Howard

Filed under: medical imaging

VAP on Parade

Once again, as is done every two years, hundreds of hours of valuable time have been expended to solicit, respond, collate, and distribute a report on the status of the adoption of IEC standards by the 21 member economies of APEC, the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation. Everyone in the private sector...

Published Thu, Aug 14 2008 9:07 AM by Eckhart, Eugene

Filed under: Electrical Safety, Safety and Standardization

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...

Published Wed, Aug 27 2008 11:42 AM by Owen, Sarah

Filed under: Fire Safety

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