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

[The Avantguardian]

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>From: James Clement <clementlawyer at gmail.com>
>To: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> 
>Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 3:08 PM
>Subject: Re: [ExI] Doomsday Oil Price: (was RIP: Peak Oil)
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>Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com> wrote:
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>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).
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>Can you point me to a State where electric tractors are being used extensively for farming? I don't recall ever seeing one. Thanks. 

I can't do that but I can point you to a state where electric tractors haul thousands of tons of freight hundreds of miles per day. That state is California and the specific location is the Port of Los Angeles. Electric beats any internal combustion for "stop and go" because there is 0 idle cost. They can haul something like fifty tons per load. In any case farming involves lots of stop and go no? 
 
 
Stuart LaForge


"The state that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting by fools." -Thucydides