O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 2009
Raffi [email protected]://www.wattzon.com@raffi / @wattzon
WattzOn @ ETech12 March 2009
A couple of stories
2 500MW Coal plants per day for 41 years(1 plant every 14 hours)
11 100MW Solar plants per day for 41 years(1 plant every 2 hours)
480 3MW Wind farms per day for 41 years(1 farm every 3 minutes)
3 100MW Geothermal turbines per day for 41 years(1 turbine every 11 hours)
A 3GW Nuclear plant every 5 days for 41 years
WattzOn @ ETech12 March 2009
What does this mean for a person?
WattzOn @ ETech12 March 2009
How does a person understand his/her role
in climate change?
WattzOn @ ETech12 March 2009
How do you empower a single person?
Personal Energy Audit
See how aspects of a user’s “lifestyle” inter-relate and add up
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“You can’t manage what you can’t
measure”
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You can’t manage what you can’t
agree on how to measure
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Everything needs to be comparable
=? =?
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Personal energy analytics
2008CSV file
2007Excel file
2006CSV file (different columns!)
2001Blue??!?
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What about the stuff we buy?
188 x 106 Valentine’s Day cards sent
110 x 106 roses purchased
8 x 109 Necco hearts eaten
35 x 106 boxes of chocolate sold
$650 x 106 spent on gifts
Teddy bear
Oil
Gold and diamond earrings
Gold
Diamonds
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Do we think people care?
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Creating an open database
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AIRLINE PASSENGER-MILES / GALLON
Jet Blue 57.55
Continental 55.28
US Air 53.04
United 50.44
Delta 49.23
American 48.91
Southwest 48.64Derived from mainline operations according
to the 10-K SEC filings of 2008
Integrated Wesabe & WattzOn financial/energy dashboard
WattzOn @ ETech12 March 2009
Don’t forget to turn the lights off on the way
out
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