[Meta] [RFC] Fenspace 2022, take 2

[HRogge]

OK, cue mushy-tech revolution. All with handwavium strains that became well distributed.

* "Grey Pane" solar panels that turn 90% of the incident radiation falling on them, from IR through the visible spectrum to UV, into usable electrical energy. These are waved conventional solar panels. This meant people could make their own power cheaper than it could be generated and distributed centrally. The grid was still useful for evening-out power loads, though.

You could easily skip the UV part... not much energy available around our sun anyways Near infrared is much more interesting.

Might be interesting to know the quirks of this strain.

Hardtech cells are most likely at ~40-50% anyways in 2020.

* "Super Batteries" are a combination of Lithium-Ion batteries and Super Capacitors with a waved processor, and can store ridiculous amounts of power. Most people turn to an electrical technician to put it all together. This meant people could store solar power for use at night, cloudy conditions, or even the long periods of darkness near the Poles, meaning they needed no other source of power.

Without waving the battery/capacitor, I cannot see how this should increase the capacity...

* "Aqua Clean" is an electrically-powered handwavium filter which will take the most polluted water (including sea water, and sewage) and produce clean water for drinking.

Hardtech filters (based on Graphen?) will do half of the job (filtering our anything but water)... but the waver versions might add the necessary salts to make it drinkable.

Then there is the "Magic Wardrobe" that measures people, makes (non-designer) clothes of almost any sort for them (including shoes), and also cleans clothes and repair and re-dyes old clothes to new; needs rags, scrap leather, waste plastic, metal scrap.

Hmm... I think this one should be highly quirked.

The "Doc Phone" which tracked its owners medical state, and made an emergency call generally early enough people could be effectively treated.

Where is the need of Handwavium with this one?

The "Kanzashi", a small worn ornament, maybe in your hair, which contains (part of) a friendly AI who cares about you, will talk to you when you are lonely, enjoys your interests, and wants you to, and works towards, you having a fun life. Called the "IThink" by the more cynical. This has greatly reduced rates of depression across the world. Taking someones Kanzashi is a human rights violation in more enlightened places. These AIs are linked to phones, and are backed-up so destroying their physical part only looses their short-term memories. For some reason the standard versions of these don't work if taken to a height above Terra beyond about 50mls.

Hmm...