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This is a giant foam wing that gardeners can wear on one
arm, and swing through the air in a figure 8 blowing leaves
off surfaces like cement.
This will save on the noise that leaf blowers make and will
save on gas and the environment.
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//blowing leaves off surfaces like cement. |
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Is that using air to blow leaves off hard surfaces, or is that using air to blow cement off surfaces? |
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//one large foam wing...will save on gas and the environment. |
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Borderline, from the polystyrene wikipedia "In expanded polystyrene, these are usually hydrocarbons such as pentane,..Extruded polystyrene is usually made with hydrofluorocarbons (HFC-134a),which have global warming potentials of approximately 1000–1300 times that of carbon dioxide." |
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Then there's the recycling..."Most polystyrene products are currently not recycled due to the lack of incentive to invest in the compactors and logistical systems required". |
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As for disposal "When polystyrene was burned at temperatures of 800–900 °C ... "a complex mixture of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from alkyl benzenes to benzoperylene. Over 90 different compounds were identified in combustion effluents from polystyrene." |
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Now, if you were talking about balsa wood.. |
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"I only told you to blow the bloody leaves off !" |
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Human power does not equal "powerless". |
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//Don't use expanded polystyrene, then. |
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What, and use compressed polystyrene? Any passing prankster* could expand the wing to A380 size. |
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*with a lot of equipment, pentane and a great deal of patience. |
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Wouldn't a circle be more efficient? |
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// expand the wing to A380 size // |
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This is, in fact, exactly how the wings of the 787 are produced .... |
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Not a lot of people know that. |
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^*pushes glasses further up onto bridge of nose* |
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