Picked up a Drop piece of 1/8" mild steel today, 3' x 1' $27 as no cut charge, guy was in buying Stainless, Prices are AS BUY not just by the Day Week or even Hour, By The PURCHASE as to Supplier Cost.  Said Nickel has Doubled in five days.

Clay wrote: The point is bosting 215 H.P.   A battery large enough to power a tractor, for 10 hours, would be gigantic.  Would need a three phase  gigawatt charger.  Perhaps, a 121 gigawatt FLUX CAPACITOR from O'reilly might do the trick.  lol Flux Capacitor - Great Scott! | O'Reilly Auto Parts (oreillyauto.com)

Gotcha…we’re on the same page then.

Solar is Unproved longevity of Cells, then have to dispose of them even in Weather incidents where get smashed or damaged, Contain Lead, Cadmium, Arsenic and other assorted nasties all encased in now Broken Glass.  Been told MAY have to have a storage vault On Site just to house these as NOT disposable in Landfills and NO Known recycling method much as Wind Turbine Blading.

If a John Deere 9 410RX was to be converted to electric, it would require a 2800 kwh battery, in order to get the same performance. The battery would have to be capable of being charged in 30 minutes. We are a long ways from that. The only way this is going to be practical, is with the development of a room temperature super conductive battery. The last I read, researchers were up to -100ºF. Unfortunately, the greenies are only really interested in wealth redistribution. By the way, the cheapest lithium ion batteries, are $100/kwh.


Edited by bigal121892 - 12 Mar 2022 at 7:58pm

i think SOLYNDRA went BUST.... If you want PANELS, call CHINA.

bigal121892 wrote: If a John Deere 9 410RX was to be converted to electric, it would require a 2800 kwh battery, in order to get the same performance. The battery would have to be capable of being charged in 30 minutes. We are a long ways from that. The only way this is going to be practical, is with the development of a room temperature super conductive battery. The last I read, researchers were up to -100ºF. Unfortunately, the greenies are only really interested in wealth redistribution. By the way, the cheapest lithium ion batteries, are $100/kwh.

     Can't you just mount a couple of solar panels on top of the tractor and solve the problem? 

Ok I’ve got a solution. So instead of a corn/bean rotation you can simply go corn/solar panel rotation or soybean/solar panel rotation. So say a 160 acre field instead of 80 acres corn and 80 acres beans you would have 80 acres of corn and 80 acres of solar panels, then simply do the same with another 160 acres but with soybeans. Now you’ll have to farm each field at night and leave your equipment plugged in all day. Also in the off season you’ll need to hire a couple 1000 people to drag all those panels to the other side of your field but it’s just a small sacrifice to save the environment and humanity and look at the bright side them panels will shade out those weeds your chemicals can’t control. Win Win!!!!

I know I know you guys are thinking that means there would only be half the food supply in the world and while technically you would be correct it just sounds worse than it is. You see that can simply be dealt with by, yep you guessed it, half and half. Only half the world eats this year then the other half eats next year.
Sure at first it’ll be tuff to sometimes go a year between meals but once everyone gets used to it, they’ll realize it’s a small price to pay to save our environment and humanity.

That’s Shaq math.

But only 1 out of 4 would starve so we’re moving the needle in the right direction Jay.

anyone got a FIRE HOSE ?  

this corner or THAT corner ??