O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 2009

Raffi Krikorian
raffi@synthesisstudios.com
http://www.wattzon.com
@raffi / @wattzon

A couple of stories
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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

What does this mean
for a person?
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How does a person
understand his/her role
in climate change?
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How do you empower a
single person?
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Personal
Energy Audit
See how aspects of a user’s “lifestyle”
inter-relate and add up

“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
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2008
CSV file
2007
Excel file
2006
CSV file (different columns!)
2001
Blue??!?

Share
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What about the stuff
we buy?
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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

Diamonds
Gold

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 48.64
Derived from mainline operations according
to the 10-K SEC filings of 2008
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Integrated Wesabe & WattzOn
financial/energy dashboard

Don’t forget to turn the
lights off on the way
out
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Raffi Krikorian
raffi@synthesisstudios.com
http://www.wattzon.com
@raffi / @wattzon