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Re:The hidden cost of air quality monitoring by alistairSH on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @04:05PM (#36511841)
New mowers and generators are mostly 4-stroke. But anything smaller is probably 2-stroke. And, unless regulations have tightened up in the last 10-15 years, those 4-stroke mowers still don't have full emissions controls - at best they might have a "dumb" catalytic convertor (but generally not fuel-injected).
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Re:The hidden cost of air quality monitoring by MisterTea on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @04:50PM (#36512396)
> New mowers and generators are mostly 4-stroke. But anything smaller is probably 2-stroke.

New as in the last 40-50 years? Can you please give me examples of recent 2 stroke mowers and generators available in the USA? I haven't seen a 2 stroke generator or lawnmower in all my years and I used portable generators a bunch at my old job (Coleman, Generac, Honda, etc). However Ive seen plenty of small 2 stroke motors on hand held lawn and garden tools, chain saws, boat engines and dirt bikes.

The only 2-stroke generator I can think of are those really small antique 500W generators that I think Coleman made in the 1960's or 70's?

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Re:The hidden cost of air quality monitoring by MisterTea on Thursday June 29, 2023 @08:55AM (#36519742)
Ah. Import trash. It feels like this is a more recent trend - with the import floodgates fully open we are seeing the reappearance of low tech machines that were abandoned but remain popular in developing nations.
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Re:The hidden cost of air quality monitoring by alistairSH on Thursday June 29, 2023 @07:26PM (#36528225)
Yep. Same thing in the e-bike market. So much trash on Amazon etc. They don’t pollute the air, but they have cheap batteries more prone to fire, trash brakes, etc.
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