Even more recently, with the meteoric rise of solar power installations, the preferred form of electrical current in the 1880s, so-called DC has also made a curious comeback despite having been outperformed by its most immediate competitor, AC, or alternating current, for 130 years. Although almost everything about our world has changed since the 1880s, it nevertheless remains the case that there is a certain appeal to private ownership, especially when explicitly linked to a sense of control over a limited domain. It just so happens that small, privately owned power systems are what DC is
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