Your thoughts on Cash for Clunkers.... Lawn Mower Style?

[rootar]

On the subject of mowers only lasting a few years.

If you buy a good mower such a kubota or a gravely and theyll last 20+ years..... we have a old rear engine gravely riding mower at my parents and it has been used every summer for the past 26 years (give or take 1 i cant remember exactly) it doesnt smoke, leak,or anything. Now we did buy a new Kubota diesel zero turn just to cut down on the time since we started mowing double duty this past year which includes my grandma's yard. but we still use the gravely to mow around the ponds/levees/road/ and pasture fence rows.

[zeropointbug]

I also cut trails with the mower as well, so it doesn't get the 'best' treatment either. Sits outside in the winter doesn't help...

Dieing cells might be a problem down the road I guess... I suppose there has to be a long term test of a proper built electric vs. gas.

One idea is a battery pack that powers several units, such as both the mower and the weed wacker, or whatever yard equipment you can think of that would need a roughly equal sized battery, that way you are using the cycle life of the pack, raking up more cycles throughout the calender life, making it more economical.

Has anyone heard of the supposedly 'Over unity' magnetic monopole motor/generator that was demonstrated at Delft University (Netherlands)? He also went to Munich and I am not sure if you will come to the US or up here in Canada. So far looks good, the Professors there seem optimistic, although, there is still a chance it could be a fake/fraud... let's hope not.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI322...layer_embedded