Originally Posted by
Tourist in MSN
As these newer devices need more electronics to operate the more complex software, even if the electronics get more energy efficient I can see our power needs will only grow when bike touring.
Sure, because we keep wanting more gizmos, and we keep wanting them to do more. The improving efficiency is good and necessary, but the hunger outpaces it. It goes like this with many things. I was an IT guy for many years, and I noticed that while price of storage decreases per byte, the overall budget for storage only rises. Part of that is that we figure out how to store more kinds of things. First numbers, then text, then images, now videos.