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The END is near (California guys)

Nessism said:
CA has outlawed purchase of gasoline powered lawn devices (mowers, leaf blowers, etc) starting 2024, so haters like me, only have a few days left to get what they need for the future. I ordered a Toro commercial lawn mower today, with Kawasaki engine, and now I'm searching out a gas powered generator. Thinking Honda? I don't have anything against battery powered equipment, but I hate the thought of being forced to go that way.
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Check into Yamaha generators, good stuff. Get plenty of watts, the Honda I bought at 1000 watts is pretty wimpy. I still run a 2-stroke Lawn Boy up at the lake. Kicks ass on a 4-Stroke of similar size and starts in 1 pull even after winter storage. I see money to be made on black market gas powered garage toys.

"When gas powered lawn devices are outlawed, only outlaws will have gas powered lawn devices"
 
Both my mower and generator shipped today! Yeah! There is a lot of misinformation in the marketplace about gas equipment shipments to California, so I'm glad that Acme got it right.

I wanted the type with a blade brake clutch, but Acme didn't have any. Found one at another store, but they said it can't be shipped to CA. Not sure why, because it's got the same Kawasaki engine as the unit i bought.
 
Just saw this photo on reddit. Evil, selfish, bastard...


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You're killing my planet!

(I've just taken delivery of a new upgraded genset, of 7.9kVA). :)
 
Nessism said:
CA has outlawed purchase of gasoline powered lawn devices (mowers, leaf blowers, etc) starting 2024, so haters like me, only have a few days left to get what they need for the future. I ordered a Toro commercial lawn mower today, with Kawasaki engine, and now I'm searching out a gas powered generator. Thinking Honda? I don't have anything against battery powered equipment, but I hate the thought of being forced to go that way.
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Honda Inverter Generator is your best bet. Will run laptops safely as well as a welder :-)
 
Generac is the big advertiser around here these days, fueled by gasoline, propane, natural gas, or diesel. They even sold one to my brother, though neither me or him remember our elect. ever being off for more than a few hrs. Advertising the fear of elect. being off for long periods has sure sold a bunch of them
 
rphillips said:
Generac is the big advertiser around here these days, fueled by gasoline, propane, natural gas, or diesel. They even sold one to my brother, though neither me or him remember our elect. ever being off for more than a few hrs. Advertising the fear of elect. being off for long periods has sure sold a bunch of them
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One of my brothers has one; in his neighborhood, I would expect at least 3/4 the homes have one. Not because they loose power often, but why wouldn't you get one if you've got it like that?
 
Nessism said:
I have a four stroke Makita that's easily the best piece of lawn equipment I've ever owned. It's 10 years old now, and starts first or second pull. Being 4 cycle, it's not overly loud, nor does it puke out stinky exhaust, like 2 stroke blowers. It's a great bit of kit! It has a vacuum feature also, for sucking up and mulching leaves.
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I could almost tolerate a 'quiet' engine leafblower. The vacuum adaptability is a very good idea,imo.
I still like using rakes and brooms;I need the exersize.

I'm Not for All Electric when it comes to generators or vehicles;I like ICE's and always will.
Engines can be re-muffled if desired,although it's not easy to locate an NOS or adapt a muffler to some machines.
 
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Yep, mulch almost of them, just blow them off the asphalt, concrete, and flower beds first then mulch them out on the yard.
 
rphillips said:
Generac is the big advertiser around here these days, fueled by gasoline, propane, natural gas, or diesel. They even sold one to my brother, though neither me or him remember our elect. ever being off for more than a few hrs. Advertising the fear of elect. being off for long periods has sure sold a bunch of them
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It's a rare event, but I just used my Generac for 20 hours due to an odd warm winter rain/wind event. I bought it because many years ago we were without power in an ice storm for 5 days, never again!
 
rphillips said:
cap, may not make it by 2050. I don't think the Global warming stuff, that Al Gore had predicted and made a movie about back in the early 2000's, are happening near as fast as he had thought they would. I remember the gist of Gore's predictions. By 2016, lower Manhattan being under water, MT Kilimanjaro being without it's snow cap, and no ice in the polar ice caps in the summer time, oceans boiling, If any of this has happened I must'v missed hearing about it. I've always thought I'd watch his movie, "An Inconvenient Truth" but just never got around to it yet... Like you ED, just rather not be forced into the elect. lawn mowers and leaf blowers. Shoot, nobody forced us into buying autos to replace out horses and wagons, we knew when we were ready.
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A friend of my works for Antarctica New Zealand and has just spent 4 weeks at Scott Base, shepherding some journalists around as they talked with climate scientists who do field work on the ice. She put me on to this video below.

While the timings given in "The Inconvenient Truth" might be out in the scale of a human life time, this doesn't prove that the trend isn't there, just just proves that Al Gore got his calculations wrong. In the timeframe of geological history the rate of change that is occurring now is happening in the fraction of a heartbeat. Here's something one of those scientists said. You can make up your own mind. And no, I don't think that banning stuff, which strikes me as being more about virtue-signaling than providing a solution. But after watching this, I can't help thinking that "when we're ready" could well be too late. Not for us but for our grandkids, and great-grandkids. As someone's signature on this site says, "to measure is to know" well may be look at the measurements these guys have made...

 
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ptegsotic said:
as you've no doubt figured out ... you're completely wasting your time with the 'flat-earthers'
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Well, I'm not preaching to anyone... few things I do know is that we all share the same sky, and the same seas, and that the wind, rain, and CO2 don't need a passport to cross a border. I know that folk with thermometers, rulers, and rain gauges, satellites, etc. are measuring stuff and things are changing at a rate that differs significantly from the past. A bit like hitting the power band on a tuned two-stroke. The numbers don't lie, but you can make of them what you will. Or ignore them. Its an option.

Here, we're getting what were once called "one in a hundred year weather events" every couple of years, now. The infrastructure repair bill is testament to that. On January 27 last year, my city got a months worth or rain in 1 hour... It was devastating. May be the 2023 Tongan volcanic eruption that ejected 146 metric megatons of water into the stratosphere (ask NASA) was part of it? May be its the rising sea temperatures in the South Pacific... (those pesky thermometers), may be its both. In the mean time I'll ponder the what a world with millions of climate refugees might look like. I suspect they won't respect borders either.
 
KiwiAlfa156 said:
Here, we're getting what were once called "one in a hundred year weather events" every couple of years...
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At least you've got some mountains. Some of those smaller Pacific islands are disappearing right before our eyes. :(
 
Rob S. said:
At least you've got some mountains. Some of those smaller Pacific islands are disappearing right before our eyes. :(
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Yes, I was lucky in a previous life to spend some time working in Fiji. I was based in Suva. We upgraded Fiji Broadcasting Corporation (FBC) radio network and built the national TV/digital service. The Prime Minister at the time, Frank Bainimarama, very vocal about the impact of sea level rise on the island nations. Its a big issue in the Pacific, as they comparatively release very little carbon per capita. But are the first to be f*cked over by other people's lifestyles. There's a graveyard in the Marshall Islands that now gets submerged every spring tide.

Anyhow, here's some pics from my time in Fiji.

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Parliament building and Albert Park

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Suva Fish Market

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Coro-O transmission site above Suva

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​​​​​​Generator pod - part of the fully autonomous self-contained power system (Solar/Redflow batteries). Itself a part of the modular transmission site buildings.
 
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KiwiAlfa156 said:
Well, I'm not preaching to anyone... few things I do know is that we all share the s....
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my post (since deleted) was replying to another poster (hence their original post was included)
not directed at you and the link you provided
thanks for link
cheers
 
ptegsotic said:
my post (since deleted) was replying to another poster (hence their original post was included)
not directed at you and the link you provided
thanks for link
cheers
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All good. I wasn't offended or anything like that. I was making a general comment about not wanting anyone to think I was telling them what they should think.
 
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