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Question - Why don't High Voltage electrical goods have batteries?

It's 2019, and my phone has a battery that can last for 10 working days. 10 years ago, I would have been happy to get 10 hours out of it.

So if that is the case then why doesn't my Microwave have a battery in it? Or more specifically have a High Voltage capacitor the has enough to power it to not have a significant draw on the energy grid.

Imagine with me for a second that everything in your house works off of 5v like your phone. So your microwave's battery would be full when you needed it, and would then slowly recharge the High Voltage capacitors once you have utilised it. This would significantly reduce the power requirements in a house.

Question - Where are the 220-240 Volt Photo Voltaic's and batteries?

If PV's (Photo Voltaic's) charged directly into 220 volts we wouldn't need to have transformers on the power storage to use it in our homes, and every house could become a power producer and their would be a UK decentralised Power provider.

The PV market has been driven by mobility - i.e. Campers, boats etc. Yet the biggest use case is peoples homes and businesses, and we find ourselves trying to marry these two systems together. So, if the sun can power everything on the face of the earth, then why aren't we doing it already in a sustainable way?

Then on top of that we have to replace PV's and Batteries when they have completed their maximum cycles. I.e. about 20 years for PV's and and 5000 recharge cycles for a batteries (about ~15 years). That sounds very expensive, but the 'Promise' is that we are progressing with technology, so efficiency, so quickly that there will be a better solutions available when they need replacements.

The UK by 2025 want replace 'Gas powered Combi boilers' (it does the house heating, and hot water system at the same time). That means more efficient 'electric' systems will be available by then...

So on the Moon and on Mars they don't have 'Gas' for their 'Combi' boilers, so I imagine this technology exists but just needs time to be commercialised?

Question - How much time do we have?

This isn't an arbitrary question before it's too late for Climate change to become irreversible?

Will the Moon settlement, and Mars settlement technologies be enough to save our Earth... Or have we seen the beginning of the Earth extinction event and not had a clue about it going on around us. To blind to see the signs.

Question - Will AI save us?

Is anyone able to teach an AI what 'Best Earth' looks like and get it to figure out how to Project Manage the change...

Question - Will we live on in our Ideas?

Through the digital wake we leave behind on the internet?

We don't have Benjamin Franklin around anymore. But what if we did? What if all your ideas could be synthesised into a second you... What if this happens within your lifetime. Then when you die the second you gets control over your physical and virtual assets and continues on after you.

They can already recreate your voice just from a couple of sound bytes. It's a very abstract idea, but not so far fetched that it's not possible. Would the ML (Machine Learning) system put your second self together from your Digital foot print be enough, or would it need a brain scan. Or would it have to run multiple test cases against you till it perfects the second you.

So what parts would you need to make this work. 1. Compute space 2. A framework

How would the second you sustain itself? How would it be able to pay for it's compute space.

After how many upgrades would it no longer be you?

Could someone or another persons second you have a 'legal' relationship with your second you.

Will you buy some desert

If the Re-Greening model that is implemented by Israel is a advertisement of what is possible then the vast areas of Desert in Afrika may become areas of Greenery and Water abundance.

And it happened in my lifetime!

Why don't Countries invest in this as a Climate Neutral initiative? This directly offsets the carbon emissions. Further... how fertile is the desert and wouldn't this be better placed for farming... Instead of cutting down forest areas in the Amazon.

Education is becoming the dividing line

Read this article from World Economic Forum - Daunting stuff.

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