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[–][deleted] 131 points132 points  (18 children)

In CP2020 you had batteries that lasted a year

Post-4th War I think we figured out how to run them off endorphins? (Or it was just handwaved to streamline the game)

[–]TBWanderer 81 points82 points  (8 children)

In red there's no mention of it specifically, but we are to assume that given that very little tech has been invented afterwards, the batteries are still used, perhaps made even rechargeable.

Things like internal cyberware I've always thought are run by bioelectricity.

[–]TubaenthusiasticbeeNetrunner 35 points36 points  (7 children)

And now I have the image of some NC resident having to sit on a sofa and waiting for their arm to recharge with a usb-c cable.

Like me, when I forgot to charge my phone 5 minutes before I have to go and hope it will get to at least 20%

[–]adrielzeppeliTeam Judy 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Maybe the beds have some kind of magnetic charger which naturally charges cyberware while you sleep.

It's weird to think some low class residents would have that, but everyone has implants so who knows.

[–]revdijck 8 points9 points  (2 children)

no shot its a usb-c.

its gonna be a different connector for every piece of cyberware.

and you cant buy aftermarket cables otherwise your cyberware will stop working.

truly dystopian

[–]TBWanderer -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Things that have 100% happened.

[–]MyStationIsAbandonedTeam Panam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll never understand how people do this. my phone has never dropped below 70% ever since I had my first one. Even when I started watching shows on it at night or watch movies on it when i'm away from home.

How do people not charge their phones? and it's always the people who are on their phone all the time...like...just charge it when you're not using it. or charge when you are sitting in one spot and using it. the charging cables are cheap as hell, you buy one for every room.

[–]Zombeikid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a guy I watch on YouTube who has to charge his leg prosthetic

[–]TheDeadlySpaceman 22 points23 points  (2 children)

Even in 2020 it was assumed that walking waved them around enough that internal sci-fi bs used the motion to recharge them

[–]dcabines 19 points20 points  (1 child)

Everyone is full of self winding watch cores.

[–]HadeanDiscoBakkers 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Or "rotors and mainsprings" as we watch nerds prefer. 😉

[–]CabnbeeschurgrSolo 2 points3 points  (3 children)

I'm just imagining it like phone shopping, people saying "oh my arm batteries are wearing down time to get a new one" lol

[–]HadeanDiscoBakkers 1 point2 points  (2 children)

"You bought a Kiroshi Mk4?! Dude the battery in that thing isn't even user replaceable!"

[–]Jhawk163 1 point2 points  (1 child)

"Dude, there's a battery recall for those leg implants"

"Yeah but they're so good, I don't want to give them up!"

"...your pants are burning"

[–]HadeanDiscoBakkers 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean we sorta got that situation in the game, didn't we? 🤣

[–]raven00xNomad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's been research into glucose-powered fuel cells in the last 20 years or so. IRL they're not at a point where they're really feasible, but in the handwavium future it's not hard to imagine that cyberware is powered by the sugar you eat, which is why there's so many sweets available in night city.

edit: this type of power source for cybernetics is also seen in GitS:SAC when togusa tries some of batou's cyborg food and finds it to be disgustingly sweet

[–]HadeanDiscoBakkers 12 points13 points  (0 children)

nuclear power

NIMBYOUMA: Not In My Backyard Only Up My Ass.

[–]DummyGod 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Or even wireless charging whenever you walk into your apartment, club, etc. I remember reading somewhere that it's scientifically plausible

[–]That_JonesyTeam Brendan 34 points35 points  (2 children)

IRL some scientists figured out how to power shit with a subdermal blood sugar based power cell. I'll look for the link. It was in mice. It's barely any electricity but I love the idea of all that junk food we find being used to power cyberware in '77

EDIT: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/adma.202300890

https://www.google.com/amp/s/medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-implantable-fuel-cell-generates-electricity.amp

[–]MyStationIsAbandonedTeam Panam 1 point2 points  (1 child)

what about the people like lizzy wizzy or smasher who are nothing but a brain and chrome?

[–]That_JonesyTeam Brendan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Blood sugar energy deffo aint cannon. Not mentioned in anything Cyberpunk I've ever seen, so yeah it's just my personal thing. Doesn't smasher have a small nuclear reactor built into him or some shit?

[–]SaviorOfNirn 44 points45 points  (0 children)

Rule of cool

[–]IAmJervTeam Rebecca 15 points16 points  (0 children)

That's the neat part; you don't.

Low-powered 'ware can be powered by kinetic, thermal, or chemical means. Maybe wrapping induction coils around nerves. RTG has meanings other than R. Talsorian Games; it also means Radio-Thermal Generator.

Also, Narrativium is a potent power source.

[–]Corgi_SBS 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Depends on what exactly we're talking about. Some low-tier cyberware, such as fashionware or booster/speedware, all function off a single battery installed somewhere in the body. However, cybernetic implants that are more power-heavy require batteries all to themselves, such as cyberarms, cyberlegs, cyberhands (if the hands are not attached to a cyberarm, that is), cyber-snakes, and linear frames (a single linear frame requires four batteries). These batteries can last for a full year, and cost roughly 100 eurodollars a piece (200 if you don't bring in the old batteries for recharging).

Source: Chromebook #3, pg. 120(Not exactly on 120, but the segment in which this information is given begins on 120).

Also, Full Body Conversions are powered by similar batteries, just more powerful ones, according to a comment from Mike Pondsmith which currently eludes me (I’ll edit the link to it in once I find it).

I’d like to mention, though, that I don’t know if any of this has changed by the time of 2077, since all of that lore was written for the 2020 tabletop games. While I don’t have any reason to suspect the technology has changed — since nothing in CP Red(which is set in 2045) not 2077 suggests as much — it’s entirely possible that other methods have been developed. But, until any canon lore source confirms that, I’ll stick to the battery explanation.

Hope this helps!

[–]Hopeful-Yak2077 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Probably charges when you sleep at night

[–]e1ahn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I remember reading that they almost use your blood as hydroelectricity meaning the flow is transferred through a turbine system and into energy

[–]angryponch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It'd be kinda sweet if there was a game mechanic that made you go to sleep to recharge your cyberware every 24 hrs or something. Maybe your shit would go into low battery mode so you could walk and jump but no sandy or double jump unless you crash on your charge bed. Give me a reason to go to my appartments.

[–]Stormraven337 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You hold X for Xbox, and Square for PlayStation.

[–]TG626Merc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nuclear pile, kenetic like a self winding wrist watch.

Maybe tiny turbines in your aorta?

[–]Beginning-Theme2318 -1 points0 points  (2 children)

Do we have such technologies in our real world that can, for example, provide electricity from our movements or anything from our living? For example, to basically charge smartwatches constantly?

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Yes! The most famous is photo-electric materials that produce solar panels.

But there's also materials/systems that produce electricity directly from movement, stress, heat, and more.

A very exciting material was recently produced by NTU that looks and feels like spandex, produces electricity from motion (stretching and squashing specifically), and shows no performance degradation after washing, tearing, or dirtying.

[–]Beginning-Theme2318 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks!

[–]TheDeadlySpaceman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s a combination of motion charging and biofeedback

[–]pablo5426Merc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

most likely kinetics

[–]Scryer_of_knowledge 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The motion from jerking off

[–]KokiriKidd_Aldecaldos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean even modern day there is a method of producing electricity that is entirely wireless that would charge any chargeable device in large areas. It was originally introduced at the same time as power lines but lines were far more taxable so they won out in the capitalism game.

[–]Darkness1231 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ever heard of wireless charging? You have one in your bed. Or, in the john. Or, the couch. Possibly all three.

As u/LittleGiantJ confirms we have a CP2020 battery that would last a year, then we would easily have one that lasted six months or so here in '77

Don't worry your weary little head about it. Now, fuel up and off you go.