TonyWilliams
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My cousin runs an organic farm, and I would like to find a way for him to do that without diesel fuel.
His immediate need would be a for a farm tractor power plant to deliver 260hp at the drawbar, or about 300hp at the "crankshaft".... continuously.
The tractor weighs 30,000 pounds.
Please don't sidetrack the conversation with other methods outside of using this tractor. No, he's not going to use a smaller tractor, or a horse team, etc. Even "no till" requires the seeds to get in the ground.
He has access to almost unlimited electrical power.
Discuss.
1) My first suggestion is two sets of 300kWh of batteries, that are swapped every hour in the field, then recharged at 1C.
His immediate need would be a for a farm tractor power plant to deliver 260hp at the drawbar, or about 300hp at the "crankshaft".... continuously.
The tractor weighs 30,000 pounds.
Please don't sidetrack the conversation with other methods outside of using this tractor. No, he's not going to use a smaller tractor, or a horse team, etc. Even "no till" requires the seeds to get in the ground.
He has access to almost unlimited electrical power.
Discuss.
1) My first suggestion is two sets of 300kWh of batteries, that are swapped every hour in the field, then recharged at 1C.