Solar Protocol Exploring Energy-Centered Design

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. By automating de- cisions according to environmental dynamics, the project explores a kind of "natural" intelligence rather than artificial intelligence. Solar Protocol works in concert with limits defined by local energy availability and thereby explores an energy-centered design. We sketch out six principles of energy-centered design, offering these as provocations for further work. (View Highlight)
Although work on this project is ongoing, it is a fully realized implementation of a distributed, community-owned web hosting system, powered by renewables. It provides solar-powered web hosting for server stewards and it currently hosts several websites and educational resources. In this way, we envisage it as a kind of virtual artist-run space that will continue to host art and design projects in the coming years. (View Highlight)
However in Solar Protocol, when these kinds of servers are connected in a network that spans the planet, they can coordinate to collectively serve a website (www.solarprotocol.net) from wherever there is the most sunshine [7]. (View Highlight)