Gas-powered lawn mower gone solar via 3-step mod

With the price of gas these days, it's no wonder people are skittish when it comes to mowing lawns. What's more, gas-powered mowers have been shown to pollute up to 7 times as much as vehicles. Sure, you could go get a manual mower and get some exercise, but why do that when you can convert your gas-powered mower into an electric one? This modification takes you through three steps to do just that, including: removing the engine and installing an electric replacement, converting the engine to one powered by solar panels, and installing the solar panel. Expect conversion costs to run around $1,500. Of course, you could always just buy a Huskvarna and skip all this tomfoolery.

[Dee Norris Posted May 30th 2008 10:11AM]

@dj-kenpo: Your command of the English language is simply stunning.

Riddle me this, batboi, if the peak of the mega-fauna and mega-flora age was when CO2 was 10 times higher then it is now and the Earth was not a burning hell the Global Warmers like to predict, what is the real game the politicians and policy-makers playing?

I, for one, do not welcome our new over-lards.

[spin cycle Posted May 30th 2008 11:30AM]

I don't know where you get your info. The CO2 level on earth has not been 10X higher than it is now in the last 500,000 years.

As to whether it was a burning hell or not, I'm not sure I know and I know I don't care. If the temperature rises 2-3C, the seas will rise enough that my mother will have to get a new house, and she can't afford a new house. So I'm anti global-warming, even if it doesn't get so hot that it would be a living hell.

[Dee Norris Posted May 30th 2008 11:58AM]

I am looking at a little longer record that a mere 500 kiloyears.

Why not come up to speed on the truth about global warming with a layman's guide at http://junkscience.com/Greenhouse/guide.html

Dispel all that Al Gore BS from your thinking (Did you know the UK courts found that he intentionally distorted facts or lied in his movie?). All those disaster stories are based on the assumption that the warming is stoppable and that is based on the assumption that the warming is man-made.

BTW, which is worse? A cold world or a warm world? Considering Peak Oil is a handful of years away, I am not sure I want to face a cold world at all! If you mother is in the Northeast US, you should be more worried how she is going to afford to heat her house this winter.

Oh yeah, I am a former atmospheric scientist and the consensus does not exist.

[Blackfeather Posted May 30th 2008 4:27PM]

Since I buy about 2 gallons of gas every year to mow my lawn, this conversion could pay for itself in about 180 years (at current gas prices).

Now, if you were really clever, you'd make an autonomous mower that runs on grass clippings.

[(Unverified) Posted May 30th 2008 7:02PM]

Let's see. I use 5 gallons ($20 to fill) and that lasts me like 6 months. Now with $1500 budget, I can go about as long as the lawn mower (Honda) can hold up.

Going green is one thing, but not if it's going to cost too much green.