“[T]he Slow Tools Project [ . . .] partnership brings together leading engineers and farmers to design and build appropriately scaled tools that are lightweight, affordable and open-source.
They have identified 34 tools in need of development, beginning with a small electric tractor that will serve as the “motherboard” frame to which other tools can be attached. Other inventions to follow will be the solar-powered “Horse Tractor,” which could have a significant impact among cultures dependent on draft animals and where drought limits water availability, and a compressed-air grain harvester and processor.”
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