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by criddell 252 days ago
Surely a display of similar specs made today would draw a fraction of the power the similar panel from 1983 did, no?
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Not really. Fundamentally things like this are driven by physics, not engineering or cleverness.

We've had solar powered calculators with LCD displays for decades. We're not really going to get much lower power without changing Fundamental technologies at the material and physics level. Much of what we have material and physics wise "is what it is", on this planet anyway.