I do think there's much much more open design space for electric leaf blowers to explore, where-as gas blowers just have terrible conflicts. You can make a quie

I do think there's much much more open design space for electric leaf blowers to explore, where-as gas blowers just have terrible conflicts. You can make a quieter efficient 4-stroke gas blower, but it's going to cost a ton, have way more mechanical complexity, and probably weight more than you want. Where-as I think we're really only starting to learn about how to optimize electric leaf blowers for sound. And I think electric blowers in general do a bit better. The top rated Ego LB5804 is supposedly 65dB, which is significantly quieter. Ryobi Whisper has a professional-grade backpack model that still is 59dB. It looks like it might need a little more oomph, but random shout out to Moxie Marlinspike (creator of Signal messenger)'s ultra-quiet leafblower. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33324195 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33324195 https://twitter.com/moxie/status/1582154037700399104 https://twitter.com/moxie/status/1582154037700399104