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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OMG. Who cares about your gas mower? Why are you even on this thread.

It's like there is a legion of gas fanatics (not simply gas powered engine owners--because most don't give a fig one way or the other) but FANATICS who somehow feel threatened by electric engines. And they have to let the world know how superior their sh1t is.

Why?
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I like gasoline because of the inherent efficiency and energy density of it.

The Otto cycle with a small gasoline engine has thermal efficiency rates approaching 33-34%.

Compared to an electric mower, where a typical fuel like coal or methane gas must be burned in a powerplant elsewhere to create the electricity that flows in the power grid to charge the battery to run the mower,  losing efficiency in each step along the way, gasoline creates its energy at the end-destination, making it a FAR more efficient means of doing work for unit of energy.

That's why it's better. [/quote]

I disagree. They smell bad, pollute the environment, and are much noisier than electric motors. They are better than electrics ONLY for large expanses of lawn, but that won't last with improving battery technology.

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Yep. and the whole thing about coal being burned to create electricity is a tired canard. I don't see anybody going off grid in their houses to reduce electrical use. Our homes use way more energy than a battery. Further, coal is not used as much to create electricity as this Chestnut suggests.

but my point wasn't why do you like a gas mower. My point is why are there some people who are so enthralled with them they feel the need to insert themselves into a Thread about an electric mower? I'm pretty sure you were not asked[/quote]

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