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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
The first big item on a farm to repower with renewables would be irrigation pumps.
Each farm can use hundreds of horsepower worth of pump power and these pumps run most of the year and best of all don't move.
Easy, right?
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Yes! And even if the individual sites were remote enough that it was otherwise cost-prohibitive to run a power line in to the well,I wouldn't mind government assistance in electrifying the wells.A one-time investment,paying dividends for the life of the farm.
With satellite remote-sensing and drones now helping farmers reconnoiter the best irrigation practices,having the electric power available might even allow never-before-possible electric technology into the fields.
We have some real issues regarding depletion of non-rechargeable aquifiers.