99.86% of this solar system is a giant power plant that you plug into through DC! All solar panels, batteries, everything that runs on batteries, electronics, electric cars, everything in your car, proper LED lights, etc are naturally DC!
The only reason for AC is long-distance power transmission, to make it centralized so that the government could cut it off at any time.
Change my mind. 🤓
You've got your cause and effect backwards.
AC is cheaper and transports better.
This is great when you need ass tonnes of space to generate electricity.
Single points of failure are a side benefit for nefariousness for sure.
That's like saying canned fish is better than fresh fish because it's cheaper to transport it from China. What's best is having it fresh and local, without far-away authoritarians threatening to cut off your supply.
Your reading comprehension needs work.
I agree.
However, power generation (until recently) was a messy, dangerous, and space greedy endeavor. It couldn't be done locally, full stop, in some places.
What mistake have I made? Maybe it's your reading comprehension that's contributing to your failure to understand my argument. You may not agree with my argument, but it clearly doesn't come from me failing to understand that AC has lower transmission cost due to higher voltage / lower loss to resistance.
You are comparing AC after 100+ years of use by billions of people, thanks in large part to centralized government subsidy. You are not seeing the DC alternatives that would have existed after 100+ years in a free market.
https://mises.org/library/seen-and-unseen
If I had lived at the end of the 19th century, I would have considered that an interesting challenge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Stoletov
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamo#History
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Blyth_(engineer)
But government subsidy of AC made the "AC is cheaper" claim a self-fulfilling prophecy.
It might actually still be false, if you account for all the people killed by downed high-voltage power lines and electric fires, all the deaths caused by coal power plants (mining accidents, cancer), and all the trillion-dollar wars for cheaper oil...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-deathprint-a-price-always-paid/