In a message dated 12/8/2005 3:38:17 P.M. Mountain Standard Time, jeroen.mailinglist@bohol.ph writes:

Sory, I must have missed something, couldn't you use computers just from the light from the monitors?

Ever tried to find the on switch in pitch dark? I love my wife's village in the middle of nowhere, as there is no light whatsoever to veil the stars. Are we talking about running on replaceable batteries, or about solar power recharging the batteries? Does anybody have any idea whether solar-powered computer or ebook batteries are on the horizon? I also must have missed something. Is someone saying that the light from the monitor could somehow power the entire computer? That sounds like perpetual motion machines to me, and so far nobody has had any luck inventing one. Anne