Re: Electric Farm Tractors

Bret Cahill wrote:
||| Plowing, seeding, fertilizing, harvesting, you know, all the
||| usual things a tractor would be on a field for.
|
|| You need to come to farm country to take a look around and talk to
|| the folks you think are prospective users of your idea.
|
| That's what the state university extension people are for.
|
| Monday I called up the local desert extension and asked, "what do
| you do? Lizards or agriculture?"
|
|| Be prepared to be
|| _amazed_ at the actual scale of modern farming operations. You
|| could drive one of the old 8Ns _under_ some of the modern
|| all-wheel drive articulated tractors (and you coulda bought a
|| whole flock of 8Ns for the price of the modern machine).
|
| Open pit mine excavators could smush any Case like a bug.
| Excavators are all electric, powered by nothing more than a big
| extension cord.

I'm somehow missing your point. Agricultural activity is spread over
the surface of the land, while mining takes place within a much more
confined 3-D space below the original surface. Are you arguing that
the tools are (or should be) interchangable?

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Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/


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