api days: renewables & alternative fuels
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Using data and APIs to empower alternative and renewable fueling choices.TRANSCRIPT
Renewables & Alternative Fuels Using data and APIs to empower choices
API Days Nick Muerdter
@nickblah 2014-06-13
America spends
$1 billion per day
to import oil
Oil by Patrick Trouvé from The Noun Project! Source: http://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/vehicle-technologies-office-moving-america-forward-clean-vehicles!
70% of U.S. oil demand
30% of U.S. greenhouse gases
Transportation
Sources:!http://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/vehicle-technologies-office-moving-america-forward-clean-vehicles!
http://www1.eere.energy.gov/vehiclesandfuels/pdfs/vtp_fs.pdf!!Car by OCHA Visual Information Unit from The Noun Project !
Medical by Alex AS from The Noun Project! Dollar by addylord from The Noun Project!Earth by Johan H. W. Basberg from The Noun Project!
Strategies
Replace
Photo by Justin Pickard!https://flic.kr/p/8CUzxU!
Reduce
Photo by Vit Brunner!https://flic.kr/p/6kzmm6!
Eliminate
Photo by Thomas Hawk!https://flic.kr/p/25J17!
The Story of An API
Alternative & Renewable Fuels
Photo by Helga Weber!https://flic.kr/p/72j5yj!
Where can I fill up?
Photo by Surat Lozowick!https://flic.kr/p/7yXxnd!
Find nearby stations
Location by Sam Vermette from The Noun Project!
Find stations along a route
Route by factor[e] design initiative from The Noun Project!
Mission Accomplished!
(Well… Not quite…)
Check Box by Katie M Westbrook from The Noun Project!
Sharing Is Caring
Photo by John Flinchbaugh!https://flic.kr/p/4JY1Yr!
The API
• Download all stations data
• Find nearest stations
• Find stations near a driving route
• Find all stations within boundaries
• Get a specific station
developer.nrel.gov
Photo by DrivingtheNortheast!https://flic.kr/p/9kgx6N!
Beyond Points…
Photo by Magnus von Koeller!https://flic.kr/p/7ivHoa!
It’s about the drivers Driving by Alexandria Eddings from The Noun Project!
API Version 2
Me working on the new API
Photo from The Library of Congress!https://flic.kr/p/4jyfKK!
Electric Charging Is Different
Photo by Kārlis Dambrāns!https://flic.kr/p/kXWZzV!
Charging Station by Nithin Davis Nanthikkara from The Noun Project! Connected car by OliM from The Noun Project!Time by Richard de Vos from The Noun Project!
Photo by Adam Melancon!https://flic.kr/p/7StppH!
Very Soon: Transportation Incentives & Laws Truck Stop Electrification Sites Soonish: Light Duty & Heavy Duty Vehicles Maybe? Cost Calculator Petroleum Reduction Planning Tool
We
Feedback Photo by Nathan Proudlove!
https://flic.kr/p/aTp8hR!
APIs: developer.nrel.gov
Everything Else: afdc.energy.gov
cleancities.energy.gov
@nickblah