Catching Up With LEDfair (or LightFair)
By Joe Salimando www.eleblog.com Perhaps, like me, you didn’t go to Las Vegas the week of May 10 to attend the LightFair conference, meetings, and educational sessions. I have a reason....
View ArticleBig Energy Event Is . . . An Electrical Show!
By Joe Salimando www.eleblog.com As an information junkie, I really liked the World Energy Engineering Congress. Held annually, it came to Washington, D.C. back in December. One of the...
View ArticleReading Tomorrow’s Newspaper
By Joe Salimando www.eleblog.com A secret of handicapping horse races is seeing the future. There are, let’s say, eight horses in the next race; tomorrow, they’ll print the results of...
View ArticleLEDs & Your Customers’ Needs
By Joe Salimando www.eleblog.com In mid-May, I went to Philadelphia for Lightfair. The session I had circled on my schedule was a seminar led by Dr. John W. (Jack) Curran of LED...
View ArticleThings You Needed To Hear At Lightfair
By Joe Salimando www.eleblog.com Lightfair is a huge trade show, with a gigantic educational component. To generalize on what was said and displayed at the 2011 event – other than the focus on...
View ArticleLighting’s Future: Fuzzy – And Maybe Messy
By Joe Salimando Salimando is a Fairfax, Virginia-based writer and contributor to energysolutions.necanet.org, eleblog.com, and tedmag.com. Reach him at ecdotcom@gmail.com The U.S. ban on incandescent...
View ArticleWhat Would Thomas Edison Think about the New Light Bulb Law?
As of January 1, 2012, 100W lamps were to be 30 percent more efficient than previous versions or else prohibited from manufacture or import. January 1, 2013, is the deadline for 75W lamps, and January...
View ArticleYou Can Add Value On LED Lighting
By Joe Salimando Salimando is a Fairfax, Virginia-based writer and contributor to energysolutions.necanet.org, eleblog.com, and tedmag.com. Reach him at ecdotcom@gmail.com As you probably already...
View ArticleGE Introduces Self-Cooling 27-watt Bulb
GE introduces self cooling 27-watt LED light bulb to replace traditional 75-watt incandescents. Read More >>
View ArticleEnergy Savings Projected From Broader LED Use
In February 2010, the U.S. DOE emitted a report on “energy savings potential” of LEDs in general illumination. Then, this past January, it provided an update. This 84p (PDF) update is the latest...
View ArticleThe Sky’s the Limit for LEDs – But Where’s The Ceiling?
Will LEDs go from a market share of just under 12% last year to 25% next year? Yes. At least, that’s the prediction embedded in an article posted to GreentechMedia.com. However, that’s not the...
View ArticleThe Latest Info On LEDs
Officials from the U.S. Dept. of Energy made nine presentations (at least, that’s how many PDFs of the slides DOE posted here) – most of which are, it will seem in a quick glance, about LED...
View ArticleLEDs Can Change Color
Yes, LEDs are amazing – and they’ll become even more so over the next few years. BUT (yes, it’s a big but!) . . . they’re not all the way there yet. Evidence: A recent “Postings” by the DOE’s...
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