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moving this to appropriate thread
for as long as the water holds out …
also, certain Diesel motors, especially fixed installations providing steady power, are as good as 55% thermodynamic efficiency. Large Diesels for freighters and supertankers are up there too.
Batteries iirc are 80 to 96% efficient, counting charge plus discharge.
Depending on who needs power when, it might make more sense than previously to interleave grain farms with dairy, poultry, pigs etc. that are intensive, not like ranches. A group of ag growers and local processing facilities could incorporate around a local power concentration center. I have no idea if this would be practical, but on first glance it seems like a workable model.Some farms are dairy and egg ranches are energy intensive with large barns that could be covered in solar panels which are becoming cheaper and better with each passing year. As I said batteries are the key and for a large farm, they might even use a future zinc chemistry in shipping container sized batteries for main storage. Lots of farming operations don't involve plowing huge sections of land, some kinds of gardening, grazing and animal husbandry can be done with solar panels in the fields when they are raised and spaced properly.
for as long as the water holds out …
also, certain Diesel motors, especially fixed installations providing steady power, are as good as 55% thermodynamic efficiency. Large Diesels for freighters and supertankers are up there too.
Batteries iirc are 80 to 96% efficient, counting charge plus discharge.