Is agriculture land based transport? Short of an actual nuclear tractor, nothing but diesel has the energy density sufficient to run modern scale farms.

Chatting around the fire we’ve tried to imagine a solution like dragging a cable but with tractors pushing close to 1000HP now that’s about a megawatt. That’s a long, fat cable or an extremely dangerous voltage to drag around a field, probably both. And an insane grid infrastructure to get power to the field borders.

You wouldn’t believe how much fuel goes into agriculture, to the point where I believe it makes up nearly a third of emissions (possibly including land clearing, can’t remember the details). Synthetic fuels are the only net-zero option.

Well I’m kind of a fan of the nuclear tractor honestly but I kind of doubt it :)

Deere makes good equipment but you won’t find one piece of it on my farm. Fuck em

Looks like I’m gonna run my Mercedes 300D until it literally collapses into a heap. The engine is supposed to be good for a million miles, after that I guess I can change bearing journals, valves and seats, bore it out and do oversize pistons like they did back in the day.

I’m appreciating more and more owning a car that only has an electrical system for the lights and radio