A super-capacitor, which may simply still be called a 'battery' (accumulator?) in the grand scheme of things, sure.. oh and I do not deny the chemistry in the c

A super-capacitor, which may simply still be called a 'battery' (accumulator?) in the grand scheme of things, sure.. oh and I do not deny the chemistry in the chips, just that the entire consumption of it, as it stands right now, is the issue. Once I have a machine, I don't want to have to keep adding things to it: batteries (energy) included. So I lust for the solar-powered mini-PC's that seem perched out there on the horizon. This is why I say we must combine the effort to reduce the grid dependence by enduring mobility. Yes, the Planet has a non-uniform distribution of most resources, but the big fat problem with our energy use today is that we stay in place to use it. Indeed, cities do have to consider their location on the planet in the grand scheme of things; the means by which these cities expand/contract/endure/reduce is entirely an energy business. My feel, is that any cultural event which occurs to reduce the dependence on a long-distance chemical eco-system, is going to be a way out of the mess. If computers can rapidly leap to the point where the Grid connection is made irrelevant, because computing is happening with the energy resources available to us in the near spectra, for free in the sense that we are not stuck in produce/consume loops everywhere, then we will have ourselves a lighter time of the days ahead. I'd be quite happy to return to 8-bit computing if it was on a small device that harvested my daily jogging routine. Go for a jog, check e-mail. Finally a proper user interface.. ;)