Halter are moving into the US market, but I’m not sure what the value prop is for ranches.

My brother loves it though. It cut costs including farm bike costs as they’re no longer idling a bike behind them on the lane.

Nz farmers will milk twice a day, early morning and afternoon. In the middle of the day the cows return to their paddock from the morning. In the evening they’re moved to a new paddock.

Grass consumption is the aim of the game. If you let cows out on a full paddock for the day they’ll partially graze and then starve themselves (relatively speaking) in the afternoon.

This is bad for milk production and also pasture quality for the next rotation.

The solution to this is to set a break, a temporary electric fence in the middle of the paddock. So, they arrive to half a paddock then in the morning the farm worker takes it down for the afternoon and sets it up in the next paddock for the night. Probably takes 30-45 minutes depending on paddock size, weather and enthusiasm of the farm hand.

x2 for 2 herds, 7 days a week for 8 months a year.

Now, my brother just draws a line on a map and it takes care of itself.

And don’t get me started on breakfast burritos, top 10 food that’s just ridiculous if you’re ordering it after 3pm?

If you had the knowledge necessary to do this, I would assume that would’ve surfaced reasonably early in the thought process.

Trains is an easy one, over head lines.

Aircraft, I think short distance trips <1hr maybe otherwise biofuel. Likely we’ll see biofuels widely used by 2040. Electric motors on a 777, I’m not sure.

I also have a gas bbq, yet couldn't fill up a LNG car at my house. Maybe there's something more to it than just making small amounts of room temperature / pressure H2.

But yea, subsidies. I've been on many a call where "there's govt funding available if we shape this like x" is one of the major selling points.

I do remember there being some news about the steel manf.

I wonder if further advancements in rocketry are adding H2 tech that could help us manage the difficulties of dealing with the stuff. It still only makes sense in very specific circumstances. Like when you need energy in tank form.

But I think battery / biofuel is the future.

Electricity comes out the wall.

Also, compressing and cooling a gas takes another huge hit at the efficiency. Electrolysis comes out at atmospheric pressures.

Oh and the platinum electrodes you need…

I’m also just now visualising a hydrogen pipeline fire… terrible terrible idea.

Electric aviation is interesting but as someone who knows a bit about the industry, biofuels make more sense here.

Hydrogen is such a terrible idea it was never getting off the ground. There seems to be some kind of psychosis around it being the next oil and therefore greedy people want to get in early on. But this blinds them to the basic chemistry and physics.

Also, from the sounds of it the Ms OAI deal is in its last days.

If it’s causing issues you can just ask the ai to improve that part. Shit, it will often even identify problematic areas.

And if migrating from a complete dumpster fire to a cleaner working system sounds hard, I’ve got news. AI can do that for you too! Just get it to write the migration files.

This is what it means to be a developer from today onwards…