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Old 09-12-2005, 07:24 PM posted to aus.gardens,aus.consumers
Rod Speed
 
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Default electric lawn mowers?

Claude wrote
woods wrote


that would be the www.enviromower.com.au


also heard good things about it.


Hmmmm......Is it as environmentally friendly as they claim? It requires
recharging by mains electricity which in Australia is
generated by burning coal. In Victoria, the green house gas
emissions from electricity (generated from brown coal) are much
greater than those from the transport sector. Probably no better
environmentally than a petrol mower and perhaps worse.


Unlikely given how crude small petrol motors are environmentally.

The environmentally superior alternative is a push mower or, better, a native
garden that needs neither cutting nor watering.


Indeed, I didnt even bother to water mine thru the worst drought
in living memory. Amazing how well it did with no water at all.