LTLFTcomposite
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To help pass the dog days of summer while waiting for news from Nissan this little OT idea came to me. About half of oil production goes gasoline/light automotive use, so even if we all had EV's that still leaves the other half to worry about, for whatever your favorite reason, be it carbon, geopolitical instability, peak oil, environmental concerns, etc.
So while Nissan is busy putting the finishing touches on solving half the problem it is incumbent on the rest of us to come up with solutions for the other half.
I'd like to kick it off with a look at some agriculture production. If I'm not mistaken large scale farms run on diesel fuel for tractors, trucks, combines, etc. Let's go out on a limb and assume we won't see battery powered combines any time soon. If we assume that clean electricity generation becomes a reality, is it possible to power large equipment like that off the grid? Large mining operations use giant shovels that are electrically powered. Of course those shovels are relatively stationary. Could you power large farm equipment with some kind of cabling system? Maybe like trains? Or crop circles where the equipment moves around a central point?
So while Nissan is busy putting the finishing touches on solving half the problem it is incumbent on the rest of us to come up with solutions for the other half.
I'd like to kick it off with a look at some agriculture production. If I'm not mistaken large scale farms run on diesel fuel for tractors, trucks, combines, etc. Let's go out on a limb and assume we won't see battery powered combines any time soon. If we assume that clean electricity generation becomes a reality, is it possible to power large equipment like that off the grid? Large mining operations use giant shovels that are electrically powered. Of course those shovels are relatively stationary. Could you power large farm equipment with some kind of cabling system? Maybe like trains? Or crop circles where the equipment moves around a central point?