There was a time early in the electrification of America with Edison, he pushed for DC over AC. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_currents
The last DC utility turned off in 2007. jaygarmon.net/…/in-what-year-did-last-of-new-york…
What about all the appliances expecting AC input?
sorghum@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
frezik@midwest.social 1 year ago
Most things with a motor would prefer AC. Alternatively, they use DC, but it’s a brushless motor with more complicated electronics and are more expensive for it. This would apply to anything with a heat pump, which includes air conditioning and hybrid water heaters.
Things that run electric resistive heating is fine with either AC or DC, but it has to be higher voltage. The benefits of DC disappear because nothing wants to run at the same voltage.
Raxiel@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There would still be a need to convert DC to AC, both for that reason and for export to the grid, but the first thing a lot of appliances do is internally convert to DC anywhere. If it became the norm for homes to have a distributed DC supply, there could well be a cottage industry in replacing the PSU component springs up.