Crescit Eundo [Latin] - It grows as it goes
Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively. - Gerald Ford
Appendix 10: Power and Communication After the Revolution
After the Revolution, energy and information systems were redesigned from the ground up around local autonomy, minimal environmental footprint, and universal access. The old centralized grids, fossil-fuel plants, transmission lines, and terrestrial broadcast infrastructure were dismantled or left to decay. In their place stands a distributed architecture that makes every dwelling, workshop, and public building essentially self-sufficient.
Primary Power: Photovoltaics and Orb Amplifiers
Every home and public establishment generates its own electricity primarily through high-efficiency photovoltaic arrays integrated into roofs, walls, and surrounding surfaces. These arrays capture sunlight during the day and, through advanced storage media, supply continuous power at night and in overcast conditions. The same systems charge personal ground vehicles and the lighter hover-craft that have largely replaced conventional automobiles for local and regional travel. Larger craft draw from the same domestic or community photovoltaic banks or from compact onboard reserves charged at departure points.
To address the limitations of pure photovoltaics (intermittency, material intensity, and the need for chemical batteries), a complementary technology—Orb Amplifiers, or simply “ORBs”—was standardized. ORBs are compact, solid-state devices that harvest and amplify the continuous flux of neutrionic radiation that bathes the planet day and night, independent of weather, latitude, or season. Neutrionic energy is ambient, non-ionizing at the intensities employed, and requires no fuel, no combustion, and no exotic or toxic materials beyond the durable ceramic and semiconductor matrices of the ORB itself.
Each appliance, tool, or vehicle may contain a miniature ORB, eliminating the need for replaceable batteries or chemical power cells in most everyday devices. Larger ORBs installed at the household or neighborhood scale provide baseline amplification and act as buffers, ensuring that even during prolonged low-insolation periods the photovoltaic contribution is supplemented rather than replaced. Because the neutrionic flux is planetary and constant, the system needs no external fuel supply, no long-distance transmission, and no central generation plants. The environmental ledger is correspondingly clean: no combustion emissions, no radioactive waste streams, no sprawling power corridors, and no large-scale extraction of rare battery metals. Residual heat from amplification is negligible and easily managed by passive design.
Museums and certain heritage sites that retain older mechanical or early-electric exhibits operate on the same principle of self-sufficiency. Where original power sources are historically significant, they are preserved as static displays; operational needs are met by discrete photovoltaic-ORB hybrids that remain invisible to visitors and independent of any external grid.
Communication: Satellite-Only Infrastructure
All communication—voice, video, data, and text—travels exclusively by satellite constellation. Terrestrial towers, buried cables, and local broadcast transmitters were retired. Every residence and public building is equipped with a standardized, low-profile satellite transceiver that provides:
- High-definition television and streaming video
Two-way voice and video telephony
- Full internet access, including real-time retrieval of newspapers, books, magazines, scientific literature, and personal correspondence (the digital equivalent of mail)
- Secure, encrypted channels for private and civic use
Because the constellation is orbital and globally coordinated, coverage is continuous and uniform. Bandwidth allocation is treated as a common resource rather than a commercial commodity; priority is given to emergency, educational, and civic traffic, while personal and entertainment use remains unrestricted within capacity limits. Local caching and edge storage within each household transceiver further reduce latency and satellite load for frequently accessed material.
Public establishments—libraries, community centers, schools, and museums—carry the same equipment, often with higher-capacity arrays and shared terminals so that no individual is excluded by the absence of a private transceiver. The net result is a communication environment that is resilient (no single terrestrial point of failure), equitable (no last-mile disparities), and free of the visual and electromagnetic clutter of the old ground-based networks.
Taken together, the photovoltaic-ORB power regime and the satellite-only communication architecture remove the need for centralized utilities, long-distance infrastructure, and the environmental and political vulnerabilities that once accompanied them. Energy and information become household and community commons—quietly abundant, locally managed, and designed to leave the smallest possible trace on the living world.
