Electronic – Would additional low voltage DC sockets be practical on mass scale?

electricity

In RL I noticed that power supply cables with possibility to charge one mobile through USB compatible socket actually exist: Ignore sockets, but look at USB ports

I actually started to wonder, whether for purpose of world building such idea could be move much more further. I mean both electronics and LED light has to convert electricity to low voltage DC, so the voltage would be already converted earlier.

OK, so the question is following:
Would additional low voltage DC sockets be practical on mass scale for purpose of connecting small electronics and light?
(Safety gains? More efficient conversion at socket instead of dozens of tiny converters? Only less cable clutter? Extra: Roughly which voltage would be reasonable?)

Clarification: I'm trying to make a setting, which is technically modern-like, but quite a few technologies and standards evolved in different direction. Instead of too improbable ideas like steampunk, I mostly try to use ideas that are technically feasible and reasonable enough, just in RL turned out not to be specially popular. I really doubt, that's a good question for EE because, they can can reasonably answer, that right now in RL trying to implement such standard would be not worth the effort.

It's like question concerning airships, ammo, etc… just not so cool.

Best Answer

I see the point, because you don't really want to convert from 110VAC/220VAC down to (say) 5VDC for USB, or 15VDC for laptops etc.

The problem is that for a given power as you drop the voltage the current goes up, which means you need thicker wires and lose more in resistive heating. However, there might be an argument for a secondary "ring main" in each house for (LED) lighting and electronics. Maybe 12VDC would be suitable. At 20A that's 240W which is quite generous just for lights, TV and laptops