Mobile Solar Trackers for farms and rural electric co-ops
Simplify Solar Development
Accelerate Regenerative Farming
Accelerate Regenerative Farming
TrackerSled's prefabrication, plug-n-play modularity, and mobility will surpass current technology while simplifying solar development for rural electrical cooperatives. Most important, TrackerSled is agnostic to topography and underground conditions, vastly increasing the amount of land available for solar farms.
Instead of manually const
TrackerSled's prefabrication, plug-n-play modularity, and mobility will surpass current technology while simplifying solar development for rural electrical cooperatives. Most important, TrackerSled is agnostic to topography and underground conditions, vastly increasing the amount of land available for solar farms.
Instead of manually constructing solar farms from tens of thousands of pieces on-site after precisely driving posts into surveyed land, crews will build TrackerSleds from 16 prefabricated assemblies in a common staging area accessible to semis and served by support facilities. In an environmentally-controlled shed off-site, teams will prefabricate 80 percent of a TrackerSled, including the skis, lateral trusses, posts, and multiple PV modules premounted to sections of torque tubes. Continued..
Accelerate Regenerative Farming
Accelerate Regenerative Farming
Accelerate Regenerative Farming
Regenerative farming is the most scalable, affordable, and immediate solution to climate change, but its adoption has been anemic. Only one percent of US farmers have transitioned their operations, despite objective science and its profitability. TrackerSled will change that by altering the balance of risk and return for farmers and their
Regenerative farming is the most scalable, affordable, and immediate solution to climate change, but its adoption has been anemic. Only one percent of US farmers have transitioned their operations, despite objective science and its profitability. TrackerSled will change that by altering the balance of risk and return for farmers and their communities. When rural electric co-ops pay farmers to generate solar power with TrackerSleds on cover crop fields, they will supercharge experimentation and adoption of regenerative practices, which will drawdown immense quantities of carbon.
Of the top twenty climate change solutions identified by Drawdown.org, eight involve the food system, which remains mostly unchanged since WWII. Although wind turbines and solar farms are top-ten solutions, renewable energy can only slow climate change - it can't reverse it like photosynthesis can. Continued...
Reverse Climate Change
Accelerate Regenerative Farming
Reverse Climate Change
If the carbon content of the world's cropland soils were increased by just two percent, we could sequester all the carbon released into the atmosphere since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. With two types of farmers dependent on the sun's energy working cooperatively on cropland and rangeland, US farmers and ranchers alone could ban
If the carbon content of the world's cropland soils were increased by just two percent, we could sequester all the carbon released into the atmosphere since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. With two types of farmers dependent on the sun's energy working cooperatively on cropland and rangeland, US farmers and ranchers alone could bank nearly half of the airborne carbon with regenerative practices* over the next decades. To sweeten the deal, carbon credits, purchased by large corporations wanting to go carbon negative, will boost a farmer's income, too. At current rates, a farmer who increases their soil carbon by 2% will receive income equivalent to 15% to 24% of the farmland's real estate value.
Imagine if other countries replicated the TrackerSled model abroad.
* assumes a 5% increase on cropland and 2% increase on rangeland.
Mapping
US Cropland
US Cropland, Rangeland, and Urban areas
US Cropland, Rangeland, and Urban areas
Excerpted from maps published by Bloomberg, this illustration shows the distribution of US cropland on a pixelated map of the US. Each pixel represents 250,000 acres.
US Cropland, Rangeland, and Urban areas
US Cropland, Rangeland, and Urban areas
US Cropland, Rangeland, and Urban areas
US Rangeland is added in yellow, and urban areas are shown in black. Four-fifths of people live in urban areas.
Electric Co-ops
Future Solar Generation
Future Solar Generation
Electric cooperatives provide power in unmasked areas, which cover 56 percent of the contiguous forty-eight states. The footprint of new solar generation needed to satisfy all US power demands, shown in magenta, comprises 6 million acres or less than 1.5 percent of US cropland or less than .5 percent of all US agricultural land.
Future Solar Generation
Future Solar Generation
Future Solar Generation
In the unmasked states, solar generation capacity is less than 1GW. These prime areas for expansion contain most of America's farmland, which is vulnerable to repurposing unless we develop a new solution for solar farms. TrackerSled provides that solution.