Hi Greg, My little brother was Young Environmentalist of the year in 2010 for writing the first paper putting a price on moving the whole of Australia to 100% renewables. He has a side business that selects the best energy efficient products for your purposes, and he would have an opinion, based on research, for just about anything energy that you wanted to ask him.
He has been ahead of the curve on a number of energy innovations. For example, just recently Melbourne University proved that reverse cycle heat pumps were the most energy efficient, something he has been saying for 2 years. He also has a house that can be switched off the grid, and he has a massive battery bank. I would be happy to organise you a mates visit if you were interested. Kind regards, Tony On 28 Oct 2015 8:58 pm, "Greg Low (罗格雷格博士)" <g...@greglow.com> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > > > Has anyone ventured into house batteries as yet? > > > > Just looking to build a new house and wondering about wiring it for DC as > well as AC. Seems dumb to invert low voltage DC to AC, in many cases just > to bring it back to low voltage DC with plug-packs all over the place. > > > > Been wondering what sort of connectors will be common for household DC. > > > > In our current place, we’ve got all the lights as LEDs anyway, so presume > I’ll do the same in the new one: just have all lighting 12VDC. Then I > presume I can rework car adapters, etc. for our laptops. > > > > Obviously fridges, toaster, etc. are still pretty much an AC option today > but I’m guessing more and more of those will end up with low voltage DC > options one day too. (Might have to check out what the caravan people do. > They must already do this stuff). > > > > Regards, > > > > Greg > > > > Dr Greg Low > > > > 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913 > fax > > SQL Down Under | Web: www.sqldownunder.com > > >
