Topiramate successfully dulled my interest in everything outside of drinking. Some people may find some benefit, but it's no magic bullet.

Thanks for the link! Usually I have a distance excuse to not do further research, but given that I get my power from Austin Energy, learning more should be rather doable.

I'm starting to feel like I was sold a bill of goods on sliced bread.

Count me among the clueless. One of the things that's been percolating in my mind as more and more devices run on DC and batteries is when the electric grid as it currently exists will be an anachronism for its then-current (no pun intended) use cases. Your mention of conversions brought this to the fore.

I get that pretty much everything short of solar is turbine-driven, which if I recall correctly is why we have an AC grid (high-school physics was a while ago, so I don't remember why). Since solar is the only residential-scale generation option, at what point does it start making sense to keep small-scale (say, neighbourhood level) DC needs separate from the AC that industry is designed around? I can't imagine there's anything to be gained from DC-AC-DC conversion.

edit: typo

I'm content to read the results of that experiment from hundreds of miles away.