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Please show me a true modern espresso machine with a manual pump that does not heat its own water. I'll wait.

IIRC, Olympia makes their Cremina now with a spring lever, so extraction is by spring force and the elbow grease goes into compressing the spring.

How will you heat the water without a heating element? Unless you are heating water with a firebox, as in old-school samovar heater, you will have to worry about an electric heater which has a coil and does need power. Some manual-fill boiler lever manual pump espresso machines (e.g., Olympia...

Whatever you buy should have the ability to be serviced locally. Choose accordingly.