▲ 15 ▼ CAT puts century-old train tech to work in new, heavier electric drive dozer (electrek.co) submitted 23 hours ago by supersquirrel@lemmy.ca to c/technology@slrpnk.net 7 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] green_red_black@slrpnk.net 0 points 14 hours ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] supersquirrel@lemmy.ca [S] 4 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) That is a separate conversation from whether large industrial dozers are needed. If you think they aren't needed you are mistaking your desire for degrowth broadly with the idea we don't need large dozers as tools. What if I use a dozer to help install a new septic system that vastly reduces and essentially eliminates runoff into wetlands? Or a grid scale solar array? What if I use it to rebuild a bridge that has become unsafe? Like anything else it is complicated. Electric drive heavy industrial equipment is absoulutely solarpunk though, not the least because it sets the conditions for further electrification because the drive train is powered by an electric motor. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] supersquirrel@lemmy.ca [S] 4 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) That is a separate conversation from whether large industrial dozers are needed. If you think they aren't needed you are mistaking your desire for degrowth broadly with the idea we don't need large dozers as tools. What if I use a dozer to help install a new septic system that vastly reduces and essentially eliminates runoff into wetlands? Or a grid scale solar array? What if I use it to rebuild a bridge that has become unsafe? Like anything else it is complicated. Electric drive heavy industrial equipment is absoulutely solarpunk though, not the least because it sets the conditions for further electrification because the drive train is powered by an electric motor. permalink fedilink source parent