http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/ Engadget Comments for Gas-powered lawn mower gone solar via 3-step mod http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/May 29th 2008 5:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/May 29th 2008 5:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/May 29th 2008 6:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/
of the highest order.

Just get a freaking COW! then when the cow is nice and plump you can get some Angus Burgers out of 'em...
you whale kissing tree kissing moon maiden!]]>May 29th 2008 8:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/
Poop is useful!]]>May 29th 2008 10:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/May 29th 2008 5:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/May 29th 2008 9:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/May 29th 2008 5:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/May 29th 2008 5:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/
I agree w/ the idea of buying solar panels for your house though.. makes a helluva alot more sense. You can actually use the power more often than when you just mow, or move, your lawn]]>May 29th 2008 5:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/
What I meant is, if your gonna make a solar powered lawnmower, why not start with an electric and not a gas powered mower.

And when your electricity is not produced 100% from fossil fuels, then yeah, electric motors help.]]>May 29th 2008 6:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/
Coal is a great way to generate electricity and the US has lots of it. The new plants are nearly pollutant free (CO2 is plant food, not a pollutant).

]]>May 29th 2008 9:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/May 29th 2008 10:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/
Oh, btw, if CO2 is increasing, how to you explain that for the past 10 years, temp has been decreasing?]]>May 30th 2008 8:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/
"THE INTERNETZ SAIDZ SO! SO SHUT UP HIPPY!"]]>May 30th 2008 9:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/It's called global dimming. The particulates in the air reflect the sunlight.]]>May 30th 2008 10:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/
HOWEVER.... there has been no such load injected into the upper troposphere that would account for the downturn in the global temperature. Especially the drop in the last 12 months.

On top of all this, the sun reached it's lowest output in the 11-yr solar cycle last year and still has not turned back on, but that is too recent to make much of a difference in the past 10 yrs and according to Al Gore and his friends, the sun does not have much influence on the global temperature

So, despite the increase in CO2, the planet is cooling. Amazing, huh?]]>May 30th 2008 11:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/
We also may not need to worry about mowing lawns anymore as we are slowly suffocating life from the planet with our emissions. ]]>May 29th 2008 5:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/May 29th 2008 6:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/
With that said... who in their right mind would pay this much to convert a mower to solar!? LAME!]]>May 30th 2008 1:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/http://www.instructables.com/ home page and post interesting things?]]>May 29th 2008 5:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/
End of story.]]>May 29th 2008 5:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/I drive my 9-11mpg truck to every worthless place i go even to the local walgreens less than a mile away. ]]>May 29th 2008 6:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/May 29th 2008 6:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/May 29th 2008 6:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/
byron]]>May 29th 2008 6:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/
We can win, but we can't be perfect.]]>May 29th 2008 6:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/May 29th 2008 7:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/May 29th 2008 9:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/May 30th 2008 8:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/I use a cordless electric lawnmower (also a Black & Decker, about 5 years old now) There is no issue with strength. I regularly let a section of my lawn grow to over a foot high and mow it down in a single pass. Electric mowers are torquey.

The real issue is runtime. If your lawn is big enough, it can't cut it in one pass and it takes overnight to recharge, so that sucks. However, here in Northern California, lawns are so small that I have mowed my entire lawn, then handed my mower to a neighbor and he mowed his front yard and the unit still wasn't even into the yellow on the battery meter.]]>May 30th 2008 11:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/
Anyways, how about just putting some solar panels on the roof of the house and having it on a dedicated electric line to power your lawnmower/computer?]]>May 29th 2008 6:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/May 29th 2008 6:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/May 29th 2008 7:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/Get your kids to do it :)]]>May 29th 2008 7:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/May 29th 2008 8:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/
Cordless electric mowers are a worthwhile choice though, and even charging from fossil fuel derived electricity are going to produce a fraction of the pollution.]]>May 29th 2008 8:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/
You're right that solar panel won't do crap while mowing. If you set it outdoors for a week it might be able to charge your mower up though for your 20 mins of mowing.]]>May 29th 2008 9:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/May 30th 2008 9:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/May 29th 2008 9:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/May 29th 2008 10:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/
Honestly, back to CO2. Did you know that the heat retention effect of CO2 decreases per unit of CO2 as the total concentration of CO2 increases? Or that at 430 ppmv CO2, we at top of the curve where further increases will only have a insignificant effect?

Oh yeah... what percentage of the total increase in CO2 is man-made?]]>May 30th 2008 12:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/
electric lawnmowers dont' do anything to solve the problem when that power is coming from plants that use coal and oil as their source of energy."

Chase this simply shows your lack of knowledge on this subject. Electric cars ARE the solution to almost all of our problems.

It would not matter if ALL our power plants are coal driven. It comes down to EFFICIENCY. How much "emissions" come from the power plant to generate the 3 cents in electricity you need to mow your lawn versus the half a gallon of gasoline burned in the mower engine to mow your lawn.

Do the math. The difference in pollution is night and day. $1 in electricity in an electric car is equivalent to 5 gallons of gasoline in the typical car in the USA for the same 100 miles driven.

Are you seriously telling me that a 100 watt bulb burning for just a hair over 72 hours generates even REMOTELY as much pollution into the environment as your car driving 100 miles burning 5 gallons of gasoline?

Efficiency Chase Efficiency. Also remember as we clean up and upgrade all our power stations we are already operating electrical devices so no change needs to be made to be cleaner on OUR ends.]]>May 30th 2008 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/May 30th 2008 1:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/
fuck all these people that DO things. ]]>May 30th 2008 9:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/Who mows lawns when it's not sunny outside?]]>May 30th 2008 1:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/May 30th 2008 4:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/May 30th 2008 3:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/http://lowtechtimes.com/2008/05/30/push-reel-lawn-mower-sales-increasing/]]>May 30th 2008 8:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/gas-powered-lawn-mower-gone-solar-via-3-step-mod/May 30th 2008 9:08AM