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>AC is much better in the home. There is no way to get around the fact that you need massive wires to supply low voltage at high amps. That's orthogonal. What you really mean is that you want high(ish) voltage to distribute power in a home, in order to mimimize losses due to wire resistance over distances of dozens of meters. You don't need AC to do that. In fact, with modern power electronics, the switching converte…
> it's quite likely I think they would simply switch to DC for everything I'm not sure. AC has some important safety considerations that would make it better even if the efficient was significantly worse. Switches, fuses and circuit breakers that work with DC are more expensive than AC. When a circuit opens there is a spark, and this spark can in some cases create a conductive plasma. With AC the wave goes to zero an…
Re: Ask HN: Have you ever worked on a product that was killed by technical debt?
#331The desire for debate was to increase our collective knowledge. Not to prove someone right. I am fully comfortable with the idea that I was wrong. You both have knowledge I find interesting.