Posted on 11/07/2022 2:44:13 PM PST by rey
EDITOR: Feeling glum after reading that greenhouse gas emissions hit a record high, I took my dogs to the park. To enter, I held my breath to get by four employees from the Petaluma parks department with gas-powered leaf blowers. Now I’m really down because gas-powered blowers are huge contributors of greenhouse gases.
The California Air Resources Board says operating a gas leaf blower for an hour leads to the emission of as much smog-based pollution as driving a Toyota Camry for 1,100 miles. Margaret Renkl of the New York Times quoted one expert saying that “hydrocarbon emissions from a half-hour of yard work with the two-stroke leaf blower are about the same as a 3,900-mile drive from Texas to Alaska in a Raptor (a heavy-duty Ford truck).”
Please, can parks and rec switch to electric blowers? We are switching vehicles to electric, but these gas blowers emit more greenhouse pollutants than even our vehicles.
ANNA COOPERSMITH
Petaluma
And they just announced that they’re adopting twins from China.
I love the majestic sound of Mexican Bagpipes, it means a neat and orderly yard in the beautiful fall months.
LOL, you beat me.
Yeah, that stalls out as it hits the major structural elements.
“It’s not just 2 stroke, it’s the fact cars have catalytic converters that burn up a lot of things that engines without them just blow our in their exhaust “
A catalytic converter that burns up carbon dioxide? If we have that this climate change BS is solved.
If I don’t get our doors and windows closed, everything gets covered in dust. Our town outlawed gas blowers 20 years ago (I worked with the woman who led the charge on that) mainly due to the infernal noise 7 am to 7 pm in the summer, but the gardeners ignored the law and the police didn’t really have time for the noise complaints. Fortunately, the manufacturers made them quieter, but not perfect.
Those leaf blowers must be powered by 7.5L Ford gas V8 engines.
No I never said it burns CO2.
Anna...just try prying my Stihl from my cold dead fingers, gringo puta.
I know...I get a little Mexican around my blower this time ofvyear.
It would be blatant cultural repression to ban the Mexican Bagpipe.
Let’s pay homeless to pick up leaves with tweezers.
Minimum wage??
‘I absolutely detest gas powered blowers because of the noise.’
indeed; and I also hate the mariachi music they emit...
A 450 hp leaf blower would tear up your lawn. That would be so cool…
If she just moved to Venezuela, she would likely never see another leaf blower in her life
What other significant green house gasses does a catalytic converter eliminate? The only one ever targeted is CO2. Is there something in car exhaust more damaging to the environment than CO2 that the cat con eliminates? And if that gas exists, why aren’t we discussing it instead of CO2?
So maybe they make a blower with catalytic converter? I wonder what kind of price that would cost
I use a gas generator to run my electric blower.
Who’s talking about greenhouse gases?
Price wouldn’t be the big problem.. burning the crap
Out of the user is the problem. To burn off the nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, and hydrocarbons catalytic converters operate from 500 to up to 1200 degrees. You want an 800 degree piece of metal on your back that just happens to be a few inches from the gas tank.
“Who’s talking about greenhouse gases?”
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