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9 minutes ago, Craig_Matthews wrote

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Well, other than all of the government grant money they get constantly to build bigger and better accelerators, design and build new experiments, launch test platforms into orbit, etc., so that every year we can get more "we don't know" from the physics community.

 

Cost of the Large Hadron Collider: $4.4 Billions

Cost of the Iraq War (to the US): $800.0 Billions

War! Huh-yeah! What is it good for?

@SteveRichter, he said "technically uneducated". Big difference

@ScanIAm,

I smell a kickstarter project

@Maddus Mattus,

We just need to put Apple onto this problem. Ultimately, my motivation for home DC power is aesthetics. And we know Apple can do aesthetics.

@Maddus Mattus,

We would need to define a new standard for cable and supplied voltage of course. So, let's say 1 connector out of the wall, but different connectors into each device.

So, a cable that promises to provide power for a PC would provide all the voltages above, and would come w/ an appropriately thick cable.

A cable the promises just enough voltage to power a printer would be a think cable.

And to power all the outlets in your house, you'd run cables to all of them that can supply the most voltage required, which is probably a PC.

@Maddus Mattus,

The majority of electronics in your house runs on DC. I'm not saying sending DC from the power plant to your house... but how about if there's a DC convert in your basement (or in the street), and have some sort of smart DC coming out your wall?

You'd eliminate an expensive component from your desktop, and those annoying plugs from every electronic devices.

And hey! the definition of primative is if this .netduino board has more memory than something, then that something is primative haha

Gah... the C64 was so primative... Incidentally, C64 also comes w/ a brick. On the last .Net Rocks show, they mentioned a DC power supply for your entire house... coming out of plugs. How about that? If you could eliminate the power supply from each of your DC devices... How quiet would that be?

hehe... you said 'tit'

1 hour ago, 01001001 wrote

Sold off Monday morning as advertised

I want to put  $100 into your Kick Start bucket so you can implement Maddus' "pelvis thrust to select" feature. Please make it happen.

Very cool project btw