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tahir



Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 09, 21 11:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

An electric tractor would make perfect sense for us, but it'll be a few years till there's an 85-100hp orchard tractor available, and it'll be way outside our budget. I reckon fruit farms will be early adopters.

dpack



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PostPosted: Wed Jun 09, 21 12:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

there should be a middle ground between human+donkey or massive expensive machine

unfortunately at the mo it eats diesel

Slim



Joined: 05 Mar 2006
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Location: New England (In the US of A)
PostPosted: Thu Jun 10, 21 4:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I'm sure there will be some interesting smaller scale electric machines popping up on Ali baba before too long

dpack



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 10, 21 7:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

make a leccy one that can do those tasks etc

agile and half a company of horses+ all day+ easy to use for pull or power

a potentially nice tangent for the leccy car folk

Shane



Joined: 31 Oct 2005
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Location: Doha. Is hot.
PostPosted: Fri Jun 11, 21 2:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Might not be a tangent - rather an established product line. I'm sure it won't be long before the massive agricultural conglomerates are rushing to show their green credentials (to avoid having to address issues such as sprawling monoculture, soil erosion, run off into rivers, methane from cows, etc.), so electrifying their machine fleets will probably already be on their minds.

tahir



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 11, 21 3:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

For sure Shane, but part of the solution to feeding the planet is going to be industrial (lab) production of meat, and vertical farming (basically a warehouse stacked floor to ceiling with trays of plants under LED lamps, hydroponically grown).

I reckon the advances in food tech in the next 20 years will be as great as all those since Homo Sapiens emerged as a species. I wonder if your starter culture is a kosher cow whether the "beef" produced from it will be kosher too. One of the more trivial ethical issues that will have to be dealt with in the coming decades.

dpack



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 11, 21 6:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

my soyalent green factory will sort the protein needs

get clever and share seems a decent and better basis for a survival plan

tahir



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 11, 21 10:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

dpack wrote:

get clever and share seems a decent and better basis for a survival plan


Unfortunately not enough of us agree

dpack



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 11, 21 10:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

so far

tis worth a try

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