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shardian:

--- Quote from: mr.Curmudgeon on May 15, 2007, 10:59:05 am ---I just recently bought a rechargeable, cordless, electric lawn-mower, since a conventional lawn mower pollutes as much air in one hour as 40 late model cars running simultaneously.

It's awesome. It has the power to mulch my entire lawn and I don't have to worry about fuel, spark plugs, oil, etc; and it's as quiet as a vacuum cleaner.
These machines are not quite ready for lawns bigger than mine though....yet.

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...except for the battery is a major environmental hazard once it's useful life is up. :dunno

And I think you meant 2 stroke lawn mowers polute more. I have only ever used 4 stroke engine mowers.

polaris:
its irrelevant anyway as its not saving any pollution in the first place, the energy to power it is created somewhere, likely from fossil fuel, so its polluting the air ,just not out of the exhaust of the mower but from the exhaust of the power station.

ChadTower:

I would bet it's making less... the power plants emit a far more controlled exhaust than a random two stroke lawnmower engine.

The 40 late model car figure seems a bit over the top to me but the electric mower, my intuition tells me, would be less pollutive overall.  Especially given that it is only useful on a small scale.

mr.Curmudgeon:

--- Quote from: polaris on May 15, 2007, 11:02:19 am ---and you think this is better for the environment

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Isn't the atmosphere part of our environment?  More info on lawn mower exhaust : http://www.greengrasscutters.com/id7.html


--- Quote from: shardian on May 15, 2007, 11:16:57 am ---...except for the battery is a major environmental hazard once it's useful life is up. :dunno

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Batteries can be recycled, reused. So it's more an exhaust issue. There's no regulation on gas-powered lawn-mower motors...hence, they spew a lot of crap into the air.

I understand nothing is perfect. It's about balance.


--- Quote from: ChadTower on May 15, 2007, 11:04:08 am ---How big is the lawn?

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I believe it's less than a 1/4 acre.

ChadTower:

Does that include the space the house occupies?  I'm looking at alternatives too, though I did just spend $120 to get my mower fixed.

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