SW10/WWW: Powernaut 2024 #1-5: World's Fair!

[candycanearter07]

Drew Nilium <pwerdna at gmail.com> wrote at 02:00 this Monday (GMT):
> On 2/9/24 4:01 AM, Scott Eiler wrote:
>> heh, I am for the very first time working on a Powernaut comic series set in the 
>> present age!  (The last time I came even close to that, was Powernaut 2011 which 
>> I published in 2012.)  We can only dream of living in Power City 2024, but I can 
>> still share it.  And this is where new guest stars come in - including that new 
>> one in the public domain.
>> 
>> http://eilertech.com/stories/powernaut/2024.htm
>
> ooooooooh :D Awesome! Worldbuilding! Crunchy details! Space elevators! :D :D :D 
> (And a steamboat-piloting mouse! :3)

sounds great! :D

>> I envision this series being published in its home universe, as a pamphlet.  I'm 
>> not sure how to explain #5 in that context, but I'll probably figure out later.  
>> For now, I've buried it behind one of those authentic boring text essays which 
>> schoolchildren of my era will remember from comic books *and* from motivational 
>> pamphlets in school.
>
> Heck yeah heck yeah. :D I love in-universe documents

Same!!

><snip a bunch of individual characters who are cool but I don't have a lot to 
> say about>
>> As for the architecture... When Power City was founded, it went for a classic 
>> look, full of iconic skyscrapers. Those can actually be designed as arcologies, 
>> which bring humanity together to receive essential services with much less 
>> impact than sprawling suburban architecture. Some suburbs exist up the cliff 
>> from us... but I have convinced Powernauts to not live there. We live in and 
>> around the Power School grounds, for public safety and for communion with the 
>> students.
>
> Very interesting implied stuff here...
>
>> -    Cracking carbon dioxide for energy may sound outlandish. But Ellipsis 
>> technology entered open source many years ago, and it's part of our world now. 
>> It is based upon the total conversion of matter to energy. Here in Power City, 
>> we restrict that to converting excess carbon from the atmosphere into energy. 
>> That is more than sufficient to meet our energy needs.
>
> Ahhhhh, okay. I was thinking "wait, does that make sense?" but that kind of 
> technology lets you handwave it.
>
>> -    Hydroelectric power is a secondary source for us now. We're discussing 
>> demolition of the Power City dam, so as not to impede the salmon migrations... 
>> but we find, a well-crafted fish ladder can get around that obstacle. Besides, 
>> there's quite a demand for river navigation which the dam (and its locks) makes 
>> possible.
>
> Oooooh, neat. :D
>
>> -    We are still exploring the full power that can be drawn from the Earth's 
>> magnetic field. But in the past, that has been enough to propel a small 
>> interstellar spacecraft to Earth orbit. I was part of its crew in 2014.
>
> Continuity! \o/
>
>> People are offering incredible designs for the use of Power City's carbon fiber 
>> technology. I've even seen a proposal for building a mountain-sized 
>> dehumidifying tower in Florida to ward off hurricanes. Personally, I feel that 
>> would be an incredibly bad idea.
>
> I think I agree. X>
>
>> But I was around in 1968, when humanity 
>> couldn't agree on anything. It's nice to know that humanity can now put out the 
>> big ideas, and still reasonably decide about them.
>
> awwwwww. :> <3
>
> Drew "the utopianism of a World's Fair fits perfectly here" Nilium


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