
Rural Roundup's Andy Thompson reminisces about his recent trip to Forest Lodge where he powered his radio station with the electric tractor, how to the reduce input costs through electrification and why solar is a gateway drug for more electric machines. "Farms are businesses and people run businesses in different ways. The whole idea is to show them what I've done and they can choose whether or not they want to adopt them. It's their business."
New South Wales gets the memo about the importance of finance and announces scheme offering zero interest loans to households to upgrade to electric stuff; plug-in solar gets the tick of approval to go on sale in the UK soon and the New York Times says it could 'change America'; EVolocity takes electrification to the streets to gets the kids inspired (and eventually employed); a tour of the amazing recycling business Redwood Materials; Think Solar and BYD give it away now; and a skit that cuts close to the bone for many solar dads.
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