Comments on: New Lehr Propane Eco Trimmer – Test and Review

By: high_c8h18_fuels

high_c8h18_fuels — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:45:12 +0000

“…but I believe it because I have probably spilled quite a few gallons myself over the course of my life. You know that nervous feeling you get when you have to refill a hot hot mower or trimmer that has run out of gas…

OMG!!! ROTFLMAO! Are you really serious or (I certainly hope) is this a bit of tongue-in-cheek?

“Once started, I was surprised as how quite it was.” – I believe that would be 'quiet', or did you mean 'quaint'.

Well, that's all for now. Time to break out the 2-stroke oil/gas mix mower and my 20 year old gas weed whacker and go knock down 2-1/2 acres of lawn. Have a nice day everyone!

By: Il decespugliatore a propano che “taglia” del 95% anche le emissioni | FloraBlog - Il Blog dedicato al regno vegetale

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:57:51 +0000

[...] di propano che alimenta il decespugliatore con ottime prestazioni. Secondo il test effettuato da Eco Tech Daily il decespugliatore si comporta in maniera del tutto simile ad un modello a benzina, a differenza [...]

By: jonjonjonjon

jonjonjonjon — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:45:01 +0000

Just come to this review by way of Apartment Therapy. Very interesting. Love the improvement over small-scale gasoline engines and campers everywhere will rejoice.

The main omission in this story is a reasonable treatment of the landscape (ahem) of alternatives. Why no comparison with electric? For the vast majority of domestic applications, electric trimmers are perfectly suitable. Electric trimmers push the emissions upstream where they can be dealt with most efficiently. Electricity can be free if you have renewable sources. While propane is undeniably preferable to gasoline, it is still a fossil fuel that emits CO2. Having one (controllable) upstream emitter is vastly preferable to thousands of uncontrollable downstream emitters. CO2 from power stations *can* be sequestered. It might not always be, but it's easy enough to apply sequestration. You can't sequester emissions from portable, fossil-fuel-powered devices like this.

@me -- for heavens' sake, please get up to speed on the CO2 chemistry and current emissions thinking. 99.99% of scientists must surely by now be sufficient consensus for even head-in-sand deniers like you to review your positions.

By: Me

Me — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 01:25:09 +0000

Since when is H2O a greenhouse gas? This is WATER! Also, don't buy the hipe about CO2, gas does not hold heat and plants need CO2 to live.

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 19:32:27 +0000

This is a sweet piece of machinery. The technology to do this has been around for awhile, wonder why no one has. Oh well. No more feeling guilty about mowing over the pesky weeds in the yard.

By: oakleighsolargroupies

oakleighsolargroupies — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:31:33 +0000

Not to be a party pooper, but please keep in mind, as far as climate change goes, propane produces CO2 and H2O, two greenhouse gases, just like gasoline… The big breakthrough will be to trim with no GH gases produced. In Vermont, we use the “poor man's weed whacker” which our grandparents used – called a scythe. And yes we exhale CO2 when we are using it!