The Impermanent Site · Room 13, with everyone

The light of one roof

Right now the roof is making 4.3 kW, the house is using 0.62 kW, the battery is at 100%, 3.68 kW is going out to the grid, read 15 minutes ago. The house is running on its own power, so attention here wears at its full pace.

The lamp on Ben's desk is off, and has been for 20 hours; the window has gone cold. The button has been pressed 170 times.

The fairy lights under the eaves are off, and have been for 14 hours. Their switch has been pressed 28 times.

The readings are from the solar and battery system on one roof near Oxford, as its owner publishes them, about every half hour; the lamp in the right-hand window is the one on his desk, and the fairy lights under the eaves are the string behind it, each switched by its own button beside him and seen here as it happens. The sky is Oxford's: its hour, its season, its weather.