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If you really want to make an impact on the noise floor, ban gasoline leaf blowers.
by imglorp 4mo ago
If you really want to make an impact on the noise floor, ban gasoline leaf blowers.
- foobarqux 4mo agoThe proposed limit is around the level of standing right next to a leaf blower.
- imglorp 4mo agoThat's fine. The occasional boom, assuming business success this time, will last a few seconds. Leaf blowers last for hours in some neighborhoods. It's not the hearing damage, it's the psychological stress.
- Rekindle8090 4mo ago[dead]
- foobarqux 4mo agoThe initial boom is less than a second but it's like standing right next to the leafblower (not across the street) and is accompanied a lasting thundering-noise which is also extremely loud.
- jauntywundrkind 4mo agoYeah, and it's entirely unexpected. Just, out of the blue, boom. A deep shaking sound wave blasts you. The people defending this don't seem to know what a sonic boom is like. Even if you diffuse it some, it's a ridiculous force. These are huge jets. This is going to be a new ambient disruption that makes every single day worse, filling the world with din, every day, for possibly billions of people. This is such a downgrade to the world. While the ultra-rich Tiphares style look down on the world.
- donkey_brains 4mo agoWeed wackers too
- tanseydavid 4mo ago>> ban gasoline leaf blowers These things are indeed "The Devil's Hairdryer"
- bloudermilk 4mo agoAir quality, too. Leaf blowers re-suspend carcinogens like brake dust and other fine particulate matter. Honestly just an awful practice all around.
- weinzierl 4mo agoAs someone who grew up near an US military base with constant low altitude aircraft noise: No thank you, I'd prefer the leaf blower any time.
- WalterBright 4mo agoAs someone who lived near Luke AFB, I used to ride my bike to the flight line and watch the F104's blast off with full afterburners! Great memories.
- weinzierl 4mo agoNice for a kid in the afternoon. Not so fun when it gets out of bed at 3:00 AM when you need to function the next day.
- dstroot 4mo agoI was 100% in your camp until my neighbor bought an electric blower. The loud, high pitched whine is somehow louder and more ear piercing than a gas blower.
- jauntywundrkind 4mo agoHey, DC resident. We've banned gas leaf blowers. Maybe perhaps possibly, but this is not my experience at all, ever. Even if you are sensitive and impacted, even if someone buys a particularly shrill one: I can sit indoors and hear gas leaf blowing from blocks away. At least the disturbance you are hearing is localized.
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- michaelmrose 4mo agoGas blowers pollute which is the primary reason to ban them.
- nullocator 4mo agoHow many gas blowers do I have to run to be one Taylor Swift?
- tencentshill 4mo agoIts not many. They are stupidly innefficient. https://www.edmunds.com/car-reviews/features/emissions-test-car-vs-truck-vs-leaf-blower.html https://www.edmunds.com/car-reviews/features/emissions-test-... Given those stats, Gemini says about 8 leafblowers is the same continuous CO emissions as a private jet in flight.
- ryandrake 4mo agoI love the idea of "one Taylor Swift" becoming a standard unit of measurement for pollution!
- why_at 4mo agoI have a special seething hatred for leafblowers. The noise to utility ratio is so high.
- Theodores 4mo agoBut imagine if you were fantastically rich and you could pay people to do leaf blower things at the crack of dawn. That would be true luxury, bossing around 'little people' that depend on you for a job waving around a leaf blower, or else they will starve, and die. If it was your slave doing the leafblowing then I am sure it would be music to your ears. You could imagine your place to be Mar-a-Lago. You would also have people washing your many cars at an absurdly early hour, so they looked shiny and leaf-blown. Your problem is having a poverty mindset. If you had a billionaire mindset then you would see that noise to utility ratio very differently, it would be proof that you had so much money. I wish I was joking, however, I have had bosses lord it over me where leaf blowing and car polishing is what matters most to them.
- budman1 4mo agogo to switzerland. gas leaf blowers and jet ski's. not allowed