I’m not going to deny that the Green movement is still gaining momentum. Heck, I read a story the other day that said if every person painted his/her roof white, we would virtually eliminate global warming, what with all the reflected light and heat doing something magical to the environment. Candidly, the article was so technical that it gave me tired-head trying to figure out just why white is Green.
No matter, I still endorse/embrace products and services that help ensure that my kids’ world — and their kids’ world — will still have important things like air and water and outdoor baseball. To that end, I salute the folks at Lehr, who have crafted a line of tools that use clean propane instead of the other, less environmentally friendly fossil fuels.
Propane is a nontoxic, nonpoisonous gas that does not contaminate soil or water. It is already in use by millions of Americans every day in furnaces, water heaters, air conditioners, fireplaces, appliances and outdoor grills — and has long been recognized as “green” energy. And now it’s part of a line of tools that could come to be recognized as “the next big thing.”
Well, next to white roofs, of course.
-- Yale
White roofs? I doubt it.........the reflected heat would go back into the atmosphere and result in more warm air not less......................................
I do not think propane is green energy though. It is a bi-product of natural gas which must be drilled, transported and is very explosive.
There is a lot of controversy here in NY about one trillion Cf of natural gas in the Catskills and the proposed drilling for it.
Greg Draiss
Guru of the garden
Posted by: greg draiss | October 15, 2008 at 04:36 PM
Propane is not green! It is non-renewable energy just like any other fossil fuel and it has energy intensive processing and transportation load. It ptoduces 1.55 kg of CO2 per litre burned. It might be able be called "greener" because it is has lower emissions that gas, but that is really just spin.
It would only be exciting “green news” if they were coming out with tools that ran on methane and a way to load them up with by-product fuel at our local dumps and sewage treatment plants... that would be “green”.
Posted by: Hap | October 18, 2008 at 09:44 AM
You sound a bit dogmatic on the green issue. Nothing is truly green but the properties of propane do make it lower emission and the fact that it is mostly produced here and in Canada makes it a significantly greener product just by virtue of the proximity of the production to the source of comsumption. Dismissing the propane trimmer is a bit premature. I have not seen one of these yet but I've been to golehr.com and it looks good on paper. Anyone had there hands on this thing yet?
Posted by: Ben Summerville | March 23, 2009 at 02:33 PM