The household ledger
A wall display shows today’s renewable output, stored energy, predicted heat demand and the neighborhood’s shared reserve. It offers choices, not orders: run the workshop now or defer until the windy afternoon?
FICTION GROUNDED IN PHYSICS / 005 Speculative futures
Three days in a possible Energonomy.
These are scenarios—not forecasts—with the tensions left visible.
The material library
A local fabricator publishes the material and energy budget of a repaired mobility aid. Raw copper remains scarce; designs are freely exchangeable; the community can audit environmental impact without tracking the individual maker.
The reserve dispute
Should the community use its reserve to run a research machine overnight or keep it for extreme-weather resilience? All can inspect the model. The decision remains a moral and political choice.