Neuton CE 5.2 Mower: lower emissions and noise pollution
By Alex • Apr 27th, 2008 • Category: Green/Clean Technology
Keep your lawn beautiful while your air stays clean. The Neuton is 100% battery operated meaning it cuts down on emissions while also nearly eliminating noise pollution. I can admit that at times I feel nostalgic listening to lawn mowers for the first time in early spring. But, when I am trying to sleep in on a Sunday morning or am coughing whilst Mr. Wilson cranks over his 1982 Toro I am less than thrilled with the concept of gas mowers. The Neuton is a mere 48 lbs compared with nearly double that for a conventional mower. It is clean, green, and gets the job done with less effort on your part. Also, for the thrifty minded, the Neuton is easy on the wallet, with low energy costs, low maintenance, and stellar performance. So if you insist on outstanding lawn care you can do your part (and save some green) with the Neuton CE 5.3 Mower. Cool name, cool concept, cool mower.
Alex is co-founders of NewWays wiki.
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so i disagreed with this article when i read it on the greenupgrader.com, and now i disagree even more after seeing the same no info marketing dept. piece copied word for word on another site. i see the “via” so i know your not claiming it as you own, but for crying in the night, look into this mower before you claim it is good, you will regret spending the money. blogging and editing wiki’s is hard work and not for everybody, alex, if your just going to regurgitate bad posts from others blogs then maybe you’re trying too hard at something your not really good at. put down the pipe, get a job, do good in school and quit trying too hard, you get the wrong kind of attention by trying too hard.
We’re all here trying to do positive work and criticism is welcome.
I love regurgitating, because there are a lot of topics and new stories that aren’t being covered and promoted out there for very political reasons. I prefer to call it promoting.
Lets talk more about why the Green Mower isn’t a good Green technology.
wait, are you still posting from me, or you don’t want to talk more?
just sent words, look like they got lost.
briefly, didn’t mention green tech, knocked you for promoting what the man wants you to promote, green is a marketing buzz word these days, people associate it with truth, you need to verify everything is up to your standards and not pass along bad info
thanks for posting criticism, not every one does
Sure.
I read your comment on greenupgrader.com and I agree with you that recycling might be a better option here.
Also, the hour limit to the mower proves limiting.
My motto is this: let them design stuff, they we can all show them how to remodel things in better more ecological ways.
and the easiest way to show them is by not promoting or buying bad products, in my opinion.
I see what you mean. I’m still not quite convinced that this product is entirely bad though.
If someone was in the market for a new push mower, I would prefer them to have this over a loud gas polluting mower.
By its look alone it promotes local Green awareness in the community.
But maybe you and I won’t be getting this mower any time soon.
so it seems we’re past the first date and now going steady so i got a few questions for you bub.
not to be snotty, really i just gotta know, but do you have a lawn that you mow?
how many journalists are in your organization? oh wait, i see now, five, is that right?
does newwayswiki have a business filing? non-profit? llc?
earliest post seems to be mid February, is that about when your group formed, or did it spin off from a different group?
do you have any revenue yet?
I’m sorry if this seems like an alien probe. I am very curious about small groups organizing around web portals.
even though i think you were way off base on the mower and your hot link repeater website seems pretty, well, mild, i can give you credit for getting off the crapper and getting it done. you have a group, a website, and a purpose(…) which sets you apart from most of the green zombies. i just don’t see much future in linking to hot content, it’s like, so 2005. Review it, trash it, improve on it, print it out and fire large caliber hand guns at it, digitize it and beam it towards alpha centari as a warning for alien civilizations.
but for the love of the sweet baby jesus don’t encourage anymore pointless consumerism.
thanks for the good time
Hey Shabaz.
Enjoying the questions. Lets get to it.
I don’t have a lawn, but my co-founding partner Paul does. I’m not sure if he mows it though.
We’re a user-based community as you saw.
We having been thinking out our business model for the last year or so. As of now we are on track to become a Non-Profit. We’re waiting for some seed grants to grease the gears on this.
We’ve been posting since last March, but updated our site early this February.
We are solely supported by our readers.
Thanks for the credit :).
Our biggest goal is to create a community where journalists, engineers, investors and PR organizations can push green products and organizations in an effective way. We believe, just as Daily Kos and the HuffingtonPost have done this for Politics, so to can a user-based community come together to promote a green economy.
Cheers,
Alex
I’m thinking there’s no reason for Alex and Shabaz to have all the fun, so here I am.
I saw mention of the Neuton mowers somewhere while researching electric/rechargeable mowers and thought it sounded interesting. BUT I’m not someone who just buys into media hype and buys things needlessly. I like my gadgets, but I’m a frugal guy as well.
Our situation: We just bought a house with a fairly small amount of land. The house came with a push mower, which isn’t too bad, but it’s a bit of a back breaker some days (damn my computer programming and gaming lifestyle!). And with the summer coming around and the sweltering heat, any less time I can spend mowing the lawn is a good thing (my irish blood doesn’t dig the 90-100degrees and 100% humidity so much).
45-60 minutes of runtime should be more than enough to do my yard. With the push mower, it probably takes that long with the push mower, but that’s with me going over spots multiple times to get them good enough. So I’m guessing a powered mower could do it in less time.
I want to research other electric/battery mowers before I make a decision, but the Neuton is looking pretty good so far. I hate gas mowers and don’t really have anywhere to store a dirty oily gas-filled mower whereas I wouldn’t mind a grass coated folding electric mower so much.
I’ve read some reviews and it seems that the biggest complaint is the narrow cutting width. As to whether this is environmental or not, it does use electricity and if people leave their batteries plugged in charging constantly, you have the “energy vampire” affect, but I’m guessing if using proper charging practices, you’re going to have less of a ‘carbon footprint’ than a gas mower still.
The only other things I’ve seeing negative is the possible “non-sturdy construction” as in “made from plastic and not as hearty as an old-school American-built gas mower”. But is that necessarily a bad thing? So it’s not bulletproof? Maybe you’ll say that it’s part of today’s “disposable society” of appliances that aren’t made to last 30 years. I’m not sure we’re going to get away from that, though. Even the gas mowers made from ’sturdy’ metal aren’t made to last 30 years anymore. If we assume those days are past us, then we can talk about more productive things like how to maintain things that aren’t built to last. With electric mowers, you’re going to have the body, the switches and the motor. Not too much to break and some things that a basic tech can fix without much knowledge.
I’m not ready to pan this mower as unnecessary or non-green or frivolous. Just because something looks fancy doesn’t mean it’s elitist or frivolous. And even if the Neuton isn’t the greenest or most eco-friendly product, promoting such things helps the overall market. The more interest showed toward the Neuton, the more likely other manufacturers are to build similar and maybe better products!
Anyway, just some ramblings from me… I hope it was at least semi-coherent.
I agree with Gryffyn, I just went and purchased one. cheers.