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Yeah, the wastage of the "average" home bugs me, but there's got to be lower hanging fruit than somehow living in spheres. Even just a cylinder would give you s
by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Yeah, the wastage of the "average" home bugs me, but there's got to be lower hanging fruit than somehow living in spheres. Even just a cylinder would give you some great improvement (and it would be mostly rectangles, with normal windows), but even better than that? On the other side of the wall I am typing this at, there's a heat engine removing heat from a freezing box, but then it has to drop all that heat into the space I am sitting in . . so then another box has to try and get the heat outside. Oh! But wait! There's another box that HEATS UP - a lot! - so I can put food in it. Another one dries my clothes, and makes hot water, both of them putting heat back in. Jiminy beeswax. Not even going to touch the way water is brutally wasted in the typical setup.
- alanlammiman 3y agoI have often thought of this. It may turn out that those inefficiencies are fairly small - the devices themselves small, well insulated, etc. One would have to do the maths. But I imagine that cooling all the air with AC (and letting it leak whenever you open a door or window) and then heating an outdoor pool is huge
- throw9away6 3y agoI think we should start with dc power. Each house should have a 12/24 volt low voltage high efficiency power supply to eliminate the need for individual converters everywhere
- marssaxman 3y ago48V would be a better choice. It is increasingly popular for off-grid applications because the higher voltage reduces heat and power loss, letting you use thinner wires, which are both cheaper and easier to install; but 48V is still considered "low voltage" and does not require any special safety precautions.
- throw9away6 3y ago48 is fine but then it need a dc dc step down power supply
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