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Yet another reason that the world’s electric grids should be replaced with DC power.

AC power was only a good idea when we didn’t know how to make good DC-to-DC voltage converters.

https://www.electricaltechnology.org/2020/06/advantages-of-h...



Or when we decided to live more than 100m away from the power plant? DC doesn’t travel well.


Incorrect. DC power travels better than AC at the same voltage. The problem, historically, is that we didn’t have good technology for changing DC voltage. That has changed in modern times.


Hundreds of miles? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_HVDC_Link




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