It's always easy,....when someone else has to do it.
Paul
Farm Energy and Potatoes combined
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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.
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 ????
BigBarney
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 ????
BigBarney
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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!
Take it from me, invest your money in gerbils!
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Barney, have you ever spent any time working on a farm?
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warminmn wrote: ↑Tue. Apr. 16, 2019 4:22 pmI 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.
Paul
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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.warminmn wrote: ↑Tue. Apr. 16, 2019 4:22 pmI 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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Ok, it might take 3 gerbils, but I'll make that extra cost back in manure sales...