greenbuggy

The more you know about history, the less you trust the government. Any government. All governments.

...your point is what exactly? I wasn't advocating complete anarchism. I just wish my fellow citizens would be a lot more skeptical about the claims and intents of our government. And for fucks sake, stop re-electing these bastard incumbents in congress. Holding them accountable for failed promises would go a lot further than re-electing them regardless of their performance.

You lose some power as heat almost regardless of what you're converting to what because of the heat of rectifying thru sizable power diodes and/or switching IGBT's, MOSFETs or other power drivers.

I would think it more efficient to convert DC to AC so long as you can match bus voltage to the drives you're using, though for some 3ph stuff that gets into some pretty high volt ranges (at least, it would take one hell of a battery bank to run the VFD's on my CNC mill, lathe and cold saw that rectify 240VAC 1ph into a DC bus over 300V before changing it back into 3ph 240 again, because my shop doesn't have native 3ph power)

But then it would have to do good things.