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Solar power expected to dominate electricity generation by 2050—even without more ambitious climate policies (techxplore.com)

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Solar power expected to dominate electricity generation by 2050—even without more ambitious climate policies::In pursuit of the ambitious goal of reaching net-zero emissions, nations worldwide must expand their use of clean energy sources. In the case of solar energy, this change may already be upon us.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (13 children)

This makes me wonder if we'll see a return to homes having DC for power instead of AC just to skip transforming DC to AC for homes that go totally off grid.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With high efficiency DCDC converters now cheap and good, we totally could do it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

So the issue is that nothing wants the same DC level. You have one device that wants 12V, another that wants 48V, and another that wants 5V. You end up with layers of conversions that each take an efficiency hit. Better to have one AC line and convert at point of use like we do now.

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