John Howe’s solar tractor, solar car, and solar-powered chainsaw
- Posted by e4 on December 13th, 2007 filed in Cost: High, Difficulty: Hard, Food: Growing It, Projects, Self Sufficiency
I wish I could get this guy to come work some of his magic at our place…
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December 22nd, 2007 at 12:23 pm
Really nice video. What I like most about his site, is that he doesn’t pull any punches about the feasibility of using the Sun to work the fields. When he mentions synergistic options I see incorporating his solar vehicles to do the relatively low energy needs of transporting food to market (assuming we’re local by then) vs the very intense energy needs of plowing and working fields. Utilizing true no till (i.e. no tractor) would make the farm work 100% solar by letting Nature do the heavy lifting.