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>The crude little two-stroke engines used by most commercial backpack-style blowers are pollution bombs. “Simplest benchmark: running a leafblower for 30 minute
by hwillis 8y ago
>The crude little two-stroke engines used by most commercial backpack-style blowers are pollution bombs. “Simplest benchmark: running a leafblower for 30 minutes creates more emissions than driving a F-150 pickup truck 3800 miles,” Fallows writes. “About one-third of the gasoline that goes into this sort of engine is spewed out, unburned, in an aerosol mixed with oil in the exhaust.”
uh no
- justin66 8y agoI imagine the author is talking about particulate emissions and unburnt VOCs, two things that won't make it out of the F150's tailpipe, and is asking us to ignore CO2. Under those constraints he's quite right.