Electric lawn equipment, solar could be home-electrification ​‘gateways’ | People with firsthand home electrification experience are much more interested in cutting fossil fuels from other areas - eviltoast
  • lemmus@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Wouldn’t adding a cable and avoiding the environmental impact of batteries be better? In some countries lawn equipment has been electric but connected to an outlet for decades.

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      5 months ago

      Mains power in the us is lacking. It works but t power is clearly missing. who cares that the battery takes a long time to charge, you only need it for an hour a day (not even every day) so a battery works well and is always charged without worry about gas or cords.

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOPM
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      5 months ago

      The cable has environmental impact from copper mining and smelting, and can be impractical for larger lawns.