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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
You have a point there, but also note that those areas do have plenty of sunshine. A small solar charger would be a great asset there.
I'd bring a solar charger, personally ...
(hey, when you're backpacking, or biking, and only sleep in a small tent, without electricity, those things become important! I have to keep my photo camera working and my ebook reader!)
They only need those stacks of paper to keep their hands busy... It could become embarrassing otherwise...
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Sometimes, too much electronics when it is not an absolute necessity becomes a self-imposed impediment. In the tropics where I grew up the weather is humid, hot and it's always dusty. In this environment, electronics quickly deteriorate. With institutions switching over more and more to electronics, rooms are now having to be air conditioned in order to maintain a less dust and less hot and less humid environment.
Do you see what's going on? In order to have those electronics working, they are having to "encase" them (if you will) in a mini-environment that works for it.
Now, I'm not saying we shouldn't use electronics in those places. I'm saying that when really not necessary, there are times to stay AWAY from electronics and go manual.
Heck, I myself used a digital voice recorder, digital camera, and laptop when I was doing research. I didn't carry the laptop when I was on the move but I did carry the digital voice recorder and camera. For the laptop, I had to purchase an electricity stabiliser because voltage would often go up and down (and even go off entirely, but the stabiliser didn't help in that situation). I didn't live in the village. I lived in the capital. My stabiliser would beep and click whenever the voltage was too high or too low and it would literally stabilise the current so that it wouldn't damage my electronics. And it beeped and clicked often. The clicking happens when the stabiliser needed to step-up or step-down the voltage. Sometimes I would hear a series of click-click-click-click like someone was tap dancing.