But obviously unclear on the concept. The key was the bottle, not the contents.

Now all I can visualize is Kirk beaming down random bottles of Saurian brandy to unsuspecting civilizations.

Everyone knows that it's a bottle of coke you need to leave anyways. I saw it in an 80s documentary.

> That being said, electronics in our devices do tend to reduce the amount of water and power that appliances use. Dumb devices are extremely inefficient, even though there are fewer points of failure.

I fail to see how electronics in these (unpowered) devices in any way reduce the amount of power that they use.