with the notable exception of some big appliances. Batteries store DC. If more and more homes have some local DC generation capability, it stops making sense to convert the local DC to AC just to ...

You would still need AC for kitchen appliances and such. But consider changing these over to DC. Imagine a house where everything ran on DC! Let’s take it further and imagine running DC from the ...

The childhood home of Malcolm and Angus Young, where they laid plans to form AC/DC in 1973, was demolished last month by a company which said it hadn’t known the location’s history.

They considered AC and DC configurations for a building with ... “Individual measurements were obtained for the following appliances: ground-source heat pump, ventilation, water pumps, and ...

“When we arrived, Malcolm said, ‘My sister-in-law suggested a name: AC/DC,’” Evans recalled. The name, which stands for ...

it would make a home more efficient if the electricity did not have to be converted to AC. “We wanted to take a normal house and completely retrofit it with DC appliances and DC architecture ...