Solar Powered Tractor: A Small Step Towards Fossil-Fuel Free Agriculture?
by Sami Grover, Carrboro, NC, USA on 08. 5.07
OK, it looks like this one is a little old, but we couldn’t help but post it anyway. We’ve talked so much about the fossil fuels involved in food production, we were delighted to come across a home-made antidote to energy intensive agriculture – the solar powered tractor. Similar to the solar-powered Prius project we covered here, John Howe, a retired engineer and inventor, has wired up his 1954 vintage tractor to a solar array, making it completely self sufficient in energy. Howe claims that we need to make drastic efforts now to reduce our energy dependence, especially when it comes to farms and farming. The book mentioned in the report is available here. :: WMTW:: via YouTube::
Nothing new here but i would love to see what this guy could do to a riding mower i have that conked out on me.
D~W
Surely a solar panel does not cost $3,000 as cited by the reporter.
Of course not. Typical local news clowns getting major details wrong.
I'm betting it cost $3K for the entire retrofit.
What say we pass a law that reporters must have a license to operate, just like doctors. If they get obvious stuff like this wrong, they lose that license and can go back to selling cars.