AC vs DC

[pete6032]

And that's a Bad Thing?😉

OP will eventually go insane with his only connection to the outside world being ATOT. What appears to be a benefit of incarceration is actually a slow, soul sucking mental poison that rots one's brain if not properly offset with experience of real life.

 

[herm0016]

When sending AC over transmission lines it tends to lose less power. Inside a house you could just as easily use 12 or 24 volt DC for lights. However, at this point most appliances are designed for 110 AC. So it is kind of a Moot Point. Typically in a solar power installation, you design a system on say 24 volt and use an expensive sine wave converter to make 110 to run house hold equipment.

by "just as easily" you mean rewiring the entire house with much larger conductors to handle the giant increase in current?

 

[John Connor]

Neither; wireless electricity is the way to go.

Energy density just isn't there. Unless electronics run on what amounts to less than a watch battery...

 

[Mike64]

OP will eventually go insane with his only connection to the outside world being ATOT.

Well, yeah, there's that.:whiste: I wasn't suggesting he not seek greater 3D activity, just that it seemed/seems to me that it's better, for the rest of us if not necessarily for the OP, that the posts all be in one sub-forum, and OT does seem the most appropriate, all things considered.:\

by "just as easily" you mean rewiring the entire house with much larger conductors to handle the giant increase in current?

Yeah, I was wondering about that "minor" detail, too...