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		bradleyjg on March 24, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A scientific accident that could change the world There isn't enough upward facing surface area on your body for solar cells to power anything non-trivial. Also floppy disks?!?

Gravityloss on March 24, 2013 [–]

Power usage is going down with every generation. A few watts is quite a bit for a machine with an e-ink display.

For others, maybe nothing but charge sustaining purposes at first.

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