[ExI] Doomsday Oil Price: (was RIP: Peak Oil)

Adrian Tymes atymes at gmail.com
Mon Feb 27 23:21:32 UTC 2012


2012/2/27 James Clement <clementlawyer at gmail.com>:
> Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Really?  There are plenty of electric tractors out there, and PV to make
>> the
>> energy for them locally would seem to optimize power production for when
>> it's needed (coupled with wind if you need power for winter crops).
>>
> Can you point me to a State where electric tractors are being used
> extensively for farming? I don't recall ever seeing one. Thanks.

Define "extensively".  I know there are several in California - but then,
California has many tractors period.  I don't have numbers, so I don't
know what the % is.




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