How a small group of activists got gas-powered leaf blowers banned in D.C.

> This is clearly a niche for PHEVs or BEVs.

(And yes it would, and that's great!)

How do you mow lawn on a slope you can't even reach with a rake? Maybe with a goat? :)

And, in my limited understanding of horticulture, I thought leaves happened later in the year than flowers. Don't they blow off or turn into fertiliser before spring?

Perhaps a good idea if you’re blowing all day but I rarely feel the need and I have dust & pollen allergies.

Either way, with electric you’re not breathing in concentrated nitrous oxide and two-stroke oil soot. To deal with dust you’d only need a light and relatively comfortable fabric mask like they use in hospitals (or on Japanese public transport).

funny and curious I dont know about these big garden grass cutters, We dont have it in Brazil almost in the integrality , maybe fery few , but anyway even around the world I dont remember playing with this kind of machine, so, well...I read in Hackernews before that some people got their feet hurt riding those things If I am not mistaken and remember well

design flaws...

Is it a Diesel powered machine???

As Noisy and dirty and pollutant as an old obsolete type non-oil-free , I mean non-screw type , the kind with two cylinder pistons on top, probably as explosion chamber, and motriz energy transmitters compounded of barenaked unrailed conveyour belts (they convey energy) that,

Well...cheap air compressors, you get it, yeah...

design flaws all around kids and old people and even an horizontal wafer making type of toaster maker , a tostapane (italian) can have the design flaw if an old lady stick a rounded point knife to take her toast there and the metal conduces electricty from the not enoughly suficiently , maybe even uninsulated interior of the toastmaker trough the tool to the old ladys hands...

talking about strictly home apliances and house machines, please, no double meanings , thanks

And what a blowtorch is doing with an Motor explosion-based Engine near it???

I dont know, I am not an engineer , much less blowing torches engineer or any kind of blowcraft or blowork engineer, so...anyway...

what about aceylene-oxigen blowtorches? I remember if not mistaken they dont need engines to run it , but I am no combustion coupled liquid fuel mixing engineer, or gas , by any matter, and by all matters...

I am curiou what the DIesiel Polluttance Level of this machines you guys comment about in your comments, The European Union has some standards , named EURO2 (old and obsolete) EURO3 (maybe countries in Africa use it a lot , even the E2 still, so...)... right now maybe they are already on EURO6 version on validity at Europe as for now, I am not sure dont remember things so well, memory yeah...

Diesel of trucks and other transport vehicles , generate heat and pollution...

filters they need for diesel engines, good Filters...FIlters for noise too...a bird or squirrel feels unpleasant to hear such loud noises from these diesel engines, please...

thanks

I would maybe ban all kinds of domestic public selling available leaves blowers , if it was in my power, I think, maybe, yes...

in my humble opinion, and maybe I am mistaken, right, theoretically speaking in an hipotetical way of mental thought experiment yeah...

and I say that as a fan of having great fun jetting machines food powders with extrastrong but small tubes of compressed air with a intensity controled exit of air jet, but at hig intensity level set it blows a lot of dust and powder from food packing machinery and it is a lot of fun I have to admit...

so electric leaf blowers can be pretty useful for their specific uses, cleaning things, but not to clean leaves from someones garden, please! honestly!?

to clean sidewalks out of dirty? Yes electric blowers yes made by the same manufacturers of the electric leaveblower that better not be used to blow tree leaves from gardens(!) honestly...but anyway better the same manufacterers make money selling the same similar machine adapted a little to clean sidewalks and send the dirty to plastic contained places yeah...

I wonder if mother nature and godesses around would think about I write an mini/micro Good Robot with >>(my patent, my tech, my trade Mark and copyRights, so take the eyes a little to that side, please!) to with the solely good puporse and intention of separating plast and material in big dumps of garbahe, those mountains of garbage, yes, come on, you can make a cute freaking insect to rovber on surface of Mars and cant make a neutral nice clean R2D2 skater to clean the trash mountains dumps here on near neighbourhood, yeas...

recommended song for sun light bath today is again Bordeaux in my Pirough by Chucky Berry :) :) :)

thanks!