One challenge farmers face today around precooling machine is how to balance maximizing transportation efficiency but minimize quality and shelf-life loss.  Since most precooling machine is done away from the field such as in a walk-in cooler or at a cold storage facility, the farmer must decide at what point during harvest to transport the produce to begin precooling machine.  Smaller, more frequent transportation loads can result in precooling machine sooner to maximize shelf-life but is more expensive or requires additional transportation equipment.  Larger, less frequent loads can save on transportation costs but result in produce taking longer to begin the precooling machine process and therefore risk reducing the shelf-life.

We can help balance this equation.  By being a 100% off-grid capable, solar-refrigeration system, the precooling machine can produce a room cooling environment at the site of harvest, reducing the distance from field to precooling machine to 0.  And because it runs 100% on renewable energy, you don’t need to worry about plugging it to the grid or making sure the generator has fuel.  If there is sunshine, the precooling machine can blow cold air.

The space agnostic design means that it can work in a variety of cooler spaces—such as a 20’ shipping container, a walk-in cooler, a semi-truck trailer, etc.  So let’s say that you have an old insulated shipping container on your farm.  At harvest time, you could drop it off on the field as an off-grid pre-cooler.  Just plug the solar panels into the precooling machine and start blowing cold air.  You now have precooling machine capabilities on site and on demand.  You could choose to leave the produce in the solar pre-cooler until it reaches a certain temperature, or just until you have enough produce to fill an entire transportation load to go to storage.  Either way, you are quickly bringing down the produce closer to appropriate storage temperature, increasing shelf life!  You could even just pick up the container and use it as the transport device.