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		tuatoru on Nov 4, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Self-Driving Farm Robot Uses Lasers to Kill 100k W... ... and spraying herbicides can kill millions per hour for much lower capital cost.

aussiegreenie on Nov 5, 2021 | [–]

Spraying herbicide is very expensive and getting more expensive every day. Killing weeds with heat using a laser or steam is very new and will reduce in price moving forward.

My guess is in Europe it is very close in price and the robots costs will only reduce.

altspace on Nov 4, 2021 | [–]

But then you have to eat those chemicals

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