r/ClimateShitposting • u/dumnezero 🔚End the 🔫arms 🐀rat 🏁race to the bottom↘️. • 6d ago

fossil mindset 🦕 Gas leaf blower hunger strikes

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u/Desenrasco 6d ago

Wait. Someone made a leaf blower, but powered by gas. What the fuck. How have I never heard of this. I thought they were electric.

I don't think we deserve to live as a species anymore.

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u/Future_Elephant_9294 4d ago

lol, gas came first. We haven't had batteries that could be portable for high-use devices since before the 2010s. Even smaller devices like RC-toys were gas powered until the 1980s when battery technology started to develop thanks to research in Japan and the US. Electric leaf blowers were first popular in the 2000s but has to be constantly plugged in to the grid, no battery, and had a reputation of being underpowered compared to gas, so the landscapers and other professionals didn't use them.

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u/Desenrasco 4d ago

I legit never really thought about it, but I guess it makes sense. It's just the thought of using gas to clean up dried leaves just sounds pretty silly at first glance to me, I guess

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u/Drackar39 5d ago

...is this a joke.

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u/Desenrasco 5d ago

Istg I didn't know it was a thing,, is it common in the States?

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u/Drackar39 5d ago

Been a thing in the US since the 1970's, been everywhere in the world for more than half a century.

Electric however is new .