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Higher Voltage: Less conductor material needed, smaller wires. But need more spacing inside electronics to prevent arcing, and it becomes more zappy to humans. Also becomes harder to work with over 1kV as silicon kind of hits a limit around there.

Higher Frequency: Things that use electricity can be made smaller. But losses in long transmission become much worse.

DC instead of AC: Lower losses in transmission, don't need as much spacing inside electronics for arcing. But harder and less efficient to convert to different voltages.



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