A few posts ago I talked about the Neuton cordless battery powered lawn mower. Here is a short informational video done by Neuton Power which shows it in action. This is definitely the best battery powered lawn mower out there.

Here is a great video produced by Renewable Energy World. A company called SOLARtec is making a shipping container that is a self-contained power grid that supports 1500 people with it’s solar array of 60KW. Read More… »

This well pump is absolutely amazing. You can purchase them with either a lever arm or DC gear-motor, so you can use this to charge your pressure tank with or without electricity.

The Simple Pump pumps 3 to 5 gallons per minute from up to 250′ static water level. Your static water level is the level that the water in the well rests at normally. Usually it only rises and falls by a few feet on an annual basis, but severe drought or a neighbouring well drawing thousands of gallons could affect your static level. Your well could be drilled to 300ft, (a relatively deep well), and the static water level could be only 70ft. So there is hope for very deep wells to use a pump like this.

The Simple Pump works on an old well pumping method, the sucker rod. There is a page here that has lots of FAQ’s about the Simple Pump, and you can read a lot more on their site. Read More… »

Neuton Mower with Trimmer Blade attached

These mowers definently have the “wow” factor. They don’t look at all like they belong out cutting grass.

The nice thing about these mowers is that they can very easily be set up to charge off of solar, making it perfect for lawn care businesses that choose to use electric lawn maintenance equiptment. And because it is cordless, there aren’t any of those issues with cords getting stuck on things, and you can go a long ways from any power outlet.

I am working on getting a kit together so that you can charge these mowers with solar. I hope to also include the supplies for creating a mobile charging setup, so that lawn maintanace businesses could charge an extra set of batteries while they were in the field, as long as they parked their truck in the sun.

Fox 44 did a review on the battery mower here. Be sure to watch it.

You can get the Neuton for a phenomenal price here at Amazon: Neuton CE 5.2 14-Inch 24-Volt Cordless Lawn Mower With Removable Battery

Here is a review from Groovy Green:

“Before I start this review, you should know that I have a love/hate relationship with lawns. Living in the Northeast, they’re a necessary evil when one has not yet shifted an entire backyard to something built on permaculture. On the other hand, a recently cut lawn does look beautiful and sharp — something drilled into my head from summers of mowing other lawns to make cash in High School. Read More… »