Farm Energy and Potatoes combined

 
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Post by Sunny Boy » Sun. Apr. 14, 2019 11:35 pm

It's always easy,....when someone else has to do it.

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Post by samhill » Mon. Apr. 15, 2019 7:59 am

Sounds like a win/win if set up correctly, I would guess that like here potatoes require crop rotation, normally soy, winter wheat, corn & I've seen another lately that I'm not sure of. Actually summer time is the most electric demand since AC became so common & there is $ in that cow poo. My neighbor up the road installed his second digester & now has applied for a switch grass to gas plant, he's fast becoming a energy producer.

 
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Post by BigBarney » Tue. Apr. 16, 2019 2:13 pm

Even get power from snow !!!!

https://newatlas.com/snow-teng-generator/59311/

https://us.sunpower.com/commercial-solar/industri ... griculture

https://www.pri.org/stories/2018-06-08/energy-and ... ops-thrive

Already many are reaping the benefits from combined agric

and solar , why waste all that sunlight when you can harvest

it along with the crops ????

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Post by warminmn » Tue. Apr. 16, 2019 4:22 pm

I could make as much power with a gerbil spinning a wheel as that snow one could make. They are just speculating and even their own predictions are of a very small output. My gerbil and wheel will cost 3 dollars compared to their hundreds of thousands for a snow generator. 2 gerbils, $6, and I double my production.

Take it from me, invest your money in gerbils!

 
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Post by CoalJockey » Tue. Apr. 16, 2019 5:28 pm

Barney, have you ever spent any time working on a farm?

 
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Post by Sunny Boy » Tue. Apr. 16, 2019 7:55 pm

warminmn wrote:
Tue. Apr. 16, 2019 4:22 pm
I could make as much power with a gerbil spinning a wheel as that snow one could make. They are just speculating and even their own predictions are of a very small output. My gerbil and wheel will cost 3 dollars compared to their hundreds of thousands for a snow generator. 2 gerbils, $6, and I double my production.

Take it from me, invest your money in gerbils!

And they produce fertilizer, too. :yes:

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Post by gaw » Tue. Apr. 16, 2019 10:47 pm

warminmn wrote:
Tue. Apr. 16, 2019 4:22 pm
I could make as much power with a gerbil spinning a wheel as that snow one could make. They are just speculating and even their own predictions are of a very small output. My gerbil and wheel will cost 3 dollars compared to their hundreds of thousands for a snow generator. 2 gerbils, $6, and I double my production.

Take it from me, invest your money in gerbils!
What I got from the article was that it would make enough power to run a small weather monitor on the solar panels that could then send an alert to fire up the generator, it's snowing.

 
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Post by warminmn » Wed. Apr. 17, 2019 9:28 am

gaw wrote:
Tue. Apr. 16, 2019 10:47 pm
What I got from the article was that it would make enough power to run a small weather monitor on the solar panels that could then send an alert to fire up the generator, it's snowing.
Ok, it might take 3 gerbils, but I'll make that extra cost back in manure sales...

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