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[–] iloveDigit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

I don't think I trust the studies saying human power is worse tbh. Cultivating food uses CO2, cows eat plants before we eat them, the plants drink CO2 from the air. Lawnmower takes power out of the ground and injects pollution in the air. Scythe has to be better

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 2 days ago (3 children)

An electric mower runs on sunlight (at least mine does), at some point their batteries will be recyclable. They have to be better than both

[–] iloveDigit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Electric is definitely about as bad as gas for mowing a lawn. The gas you're not using is just being used by someone else, if not more, because you're helping subsidize the petrodollar economy by paying orders of magnitude higher cost for batteries+motors+solar power than you would pay for a push mower or probably even a gas-powered mower. But you also have to factor in the other environmental damage from manufacturing and shipping the batteries and solar panels which you make it really difficult to avoid by demanding the mower be electrified, whereas if the mower was push-powered it would be up to suppliers whether they feel like wasting their fuel shipping it across the planet or just manufacturing it with materials found closer to you

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Solar power systems pay for themselves in four years, and typically last week in excess of 20.

It doesn't make sense to think they have more energy or material in their construction than they make, as then they would be more expensive

[–] iloveDigit@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 day ago

Any petroleum used in their production is subsidized by the petrodollar economy, though