Update node_operations.asciidoc

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@ -75,9 +75,10 @@ These points apply equally to a general purpose computer or specialized hardware
 At a minimum, the following will be required to run a Lightning Node:

 * **CPU**: sufficient processing power will be required to run a Bitcoin node, which will continuously download and validate new blocks. The user also needs to consider the initial block download when setting up a new Bitcoin node which can take anything from several hours to several days.
-* **Storage Drive**: this can be a Hard Drive or an SSD, although an SSD will be significantly quicker for running a Bitcoin node. The storage drive is primarily to store the Bitcoin blockchain, however this can be pruned. In addition it will also store channel information, route maps, and commitment transactions.
-* **Internet Connection**: a reliable internet connection will be required to download new Bitcoin blocks, as well as to communicate with other Lightning Peers. If the user wishes to route payments, ideally they want low latency to other users.
+* **Storage Drive**: this can be a Hard Drive or an SSD, although an SSD will be significantly quicker for running a Bitcoin node. The storage drive is primarily to store the Bitcoin blockchain, however this can be pruned. In addition it will also store software, channel information, route maps, and commitment transactions.
+* **Internet Connection**: a reliable internet connection will be required to download new Bitcoin blocks, as well as to communicate with other Lightning Peers. If the user wishes to earn fees routing other users payments, they likely want a high bandwidth connection with low latency to other users.
+* **Power Supply**: a reliable power supply is required as Lightning nodes to be online at all times. A power trip will cause payments in-flight to fail. For heavy duty routing nodes, a backup power supply is useful in the case of power outages.

-In addition, the user will also want to consider some kind of backup solution.
+In addition, the user will also want to consider some kind of data backup solution.
 This could be a cloud-based automated backup to a server or web service the user controls.
 Or it could be a hardware backup, such as a second hard drive that can be used if the first hard drive fails.