Shawn Mariani

I’ve followed Tremont Electric for some time now and I’m excited that their nPower PEG has recently entered the market for sale.  The device runs $149, is made in the USA, and was invented by Tremont resident (U. of Toledo engineering educated) Aaron LeMieux.  Great to see this type of innovation in Cleveland and happy for their success – good things to come!

Aaron’s recent talk at TEDxCLE is inspiring and definitely worth watching.  Check out Tremont Electric (located next to Edisons!)

TEDxCLE

Gov. Strickland visits Tremont Electric

Check out this time lapse, it’s fascinating.

60 seconds in length, best viewed full screen.  Enjoy!

This has been going on for a few weeks now; every conservative media outlet is denouncing the claim of global warming because it’s snowing in Winter.

I won’t get into the debate, but this video pretty much makes those individuals/organizations look like asshats.

If anything, show some love for Bill Nye “The Science Guy.”

I ripped this from Slashdot, but found it interesting enough to post.  Facebook is such a beast that their preference of programming language has an environmental impact.  It is important to note that this shouldn’t be limited to Facebook; imagine how many servers power Google if Facebook uses 30,000.

“Recently, Facebook provided us with some information on their server park. They use about 30,000 servers, and not surprisingly, most of them are running PHP code to generate pages full of social info for their users. As they only say that ‘the bulk’ is running PHP, let’s assume this to be 25,000 of the 30,000. If C++ would have been used instead of PHP, then 22,500 servers could be powered down (assuming a conservative ratio of 10 for the efficiency of C++ versus PHP code), or a reduction of 49,000 tons of CO2 per year. Of course, it is a bit unfair to isolate Facebook here. Their servers are only a tiny fraction of computers deployed world-wide that are interpreting PHP code.”

From [Slashdot]

It’s rare to get anything of quality legally free these days – so when I found out about a “free-to-view” documentary depicting the diversity of life on Earth and how humanity is threatening the ecological balance of the planet – all in superb HD, I downloaded the movie immediately.

Home is comprised of all aerial views, and features shots far beyond those seen in Discovery’s Planet Earth. Glenn Close narrates, and the entire film in captivating from beginning to end – really making the viewer aware of just how strong our impact is on our planet.  I absolutely loved it.  The full feature is available on a special YouTube page or found on your regular torrent tracker site.  Seriously, do yourself a favor and go watch!!

• Official Page - http://www.home-2009.com/
• YouTube Feature - http://www.youtube.com/homeproject

I wanted to get some better shots of the Cleveland skyline during Earth Hour last night, but my PowerShot CD790IS takes shitty pics from across the Cuyahoga at night.

I was surprised to see that both the Key Tower and the Terminal Tower powered off most of their lights from 8:30 to 9:30pm.  The BP Tower was still 100% illuminated, and later managed to set the lights over to spell “MVP” vertically over it’s 43 stories to show their support for Lebron James as the potential 2009 NBA MVP.

Earth Hour is an interesting global event that in it’s second year has over 4,000 participating cities in 88 countries.  It’ll be cool to see this event grow in the coming years.

• Earth Hour
• Earth Hour Flickr PhotoStream