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HARVEST
2018 By Julian Oliver
![An image of a rural landscape. In the background is a double rainbow
across a hazy sky. At the foreground, there are 3 heavy cases, a camera
standing on a tripod and a device measuring the wind.](https://cdn.ttc.io/i/fit/1000/0/sm/100/plain/everythingfine.org/inner_artists/julian-oliver/harvest.jpg)
Built to harness two elements of our changing climate — wind gusts and storms — HARVEST was designed by artist and engineer Julian Oliver to use renewable energy to mine cryptocurrency. Oliver originally envisaged the device as a prototype that could be scaled to donate the funds it generates to climate-change research; however, as the negative environmental impacts of mining cryptocurrency became increasingly clear, Oliver no longer endorsed the concept. As a work of critical engineering, HARVEST is a reminder that whilst each technological advance initially holds such promise, their impacts change as they are scaled and commercialised.
![An image showing the prototype, hardware and cables.](https://cdn.ttc.io/i/fit/800/0/sm/100/plain/everythingfine.org/inner_artists/julian-oliver/harvest3.jpg)