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One day it was too silent, the air was too clean, there was no obnoxious sounds, exhaust, or dust particulates in the air. So, a guy invented leaf blowers. (lemmy.world)
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[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 3 points 23 hours ago

Pound for pound, the CFM output of vacuums doesn't come close to the CFM of leaf blowers. Probably because of the lack of filtration. And I guess that's the point. Why filter material the wind would just kick up in the air naturally anyway? This is a waste of energy and time. Obviously if you are blowing material that normally wouldn't be outdoors for the wind to blow around naturally, that's a different story.

I will admit, the sound is really annoying though.