I retired the gasoline mower this week-- no more feeling guilty about lawn care.
I know that small engines pollute even worse than motor vehicles, and have been looking into alternatives. I chose the Neuton mower, electric powered, with rechargeable battery.
- 270 million tons of pollutants per year are emitted by lawn/garden equipment. After mowing with a gasoline mower, my clothes and body are saturated with hydrocarbon smell. That means I'm breathing toxins. Neuton emits no fumes.
- 800 million gallons of gasoline per year are used mowing lawns in the U.S. Neuton recharges with 10 cents worth of electricity.
- 17 million gallons of gasoline per year are spilled refueling lawn mowers in the U.S. Neuton uses no gas or oil.
- Gasoline mowers are noisy. Neuton produces one-fourth of the noise of a gas mower.
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Brilliant!! I wish more people knew about stuff like this.
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I love my old fashioned rotary mower! I've heard of the kind you got, but haven't been around one in real life. Question: is is quiet? In addition to the gas guzzling the tremendous noise was the thing I most hated about conventional mowers. I always wondered about the electric ones.
Good for you and happy mowing! I bet you'll feel a lot better as you mow your green grass with your green mower!
The manufacturer claims it makes 1/4 of the noise of a gasoline mower. After using it twice, that sounds about right. Not silent, but pretty quiet!
Good for you on the rotary mower! That's the greenest of all of the options!
I could probably handle that much noise. A 3/4 reduction is a pretty big difference in volume.
Ah, yes, the rotary mower is the greenest, but it is only ideal if you have a small yard space (we do) and mow every single week so that the grass doesn't grow so long that the job becomes a mower-strangling nightmare. (I only had to deal with that nightmare once in order to quite quickly learn to love the mow every week routine).
But don't get me wrong, I LOVE my old-timey mower.
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