[geeks] Wireless Routers

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: der Mouse <mouse at Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
>Date: Sat Jul 08 22:04:36 CDT 2006
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Wireless Routers

>> Meanwhile, nobody in the western world has yet designed and marketed
>> what we really should have - centralized AC->DC converters in our
>> basements and DC outlets in houses/workplaces, so that we can gain
>> the efficiency of one large converter rather than many smaller, and
>> less efficient bricks (or built-in converters) in appliances.
>
>I'm not so sure.  There are at least half a dozen different voltages in
>common use, and probably a bunch more in less common use.

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What, you mean everyone doesn't have a 48V bus running through their house, with a basement full of wet cells?

Then your devices just need to step down the 48 V DC to whatever is needed... ;^) 

Ken