Snow Blower

I think research into more eco-friendly snowblowers would be a good thing. The new one we got makes lots of noise and I'm sure it's burning all kinds of nasty things into the air.

On the other hand, in the course of the last forty-five minutes I cleared our walkway, at least a car width in our driveway, and the sidewalk in front of not only our house (which has a long frontage) but the next two or three houses down the street. Thus enabling our legally-blind housemate, or the new mother next door, and various other people (the mailman, etc) not to kill themselves, which also has social costs. This snowfall is supposed to turn to sleet and rain by later today. It may be a solid block of ice by tomorrow. A snowblower, even one putting bad gases into the atmosphere, feels preferable to heart attacks or massive head injuries or dangerous falls of other kinds.

Yay technology.