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Electric is the new black: New tech will make you rethink gas power
There's nothing romantic about a gas station. There's nothing sexy about coughing up a cloud of exhaust every time you open your garage. And even though we love the roar of an engine, there's nothing glorious about shelling out at the pump. Gasoline is dirty business. But truth be told, it's been a necessary evil. Try starting up your car with wind power, or relying on solar cells to power your lawn mower. Not only are alternative energy sources farfetched and impractical...
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Maybe it’s completely silent. If it were a silent leaf blower, now that would represent a fundamental advance in the technology of Humankind. Absent any kind of stealth mode, though, it is troubling that simply replacing a hundred-foot-long electrical cord with a lithium-ion battery is enough to get this many votes. Seriously, though, leaf blowers start in at six or seven o’clock in my neighborhood, and no later than eight every, single, Saturday morning. That flies in the face of common courtesy. We need that silent leaf blower, as a society.
Indeed, it has been for the past few years.