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Of course, this only works if you spot the small fire quickly. By the time smoke is high up in the air, the fire has likely grown larger than this drone can han
by missedthecue 5y ago
Of course, this only works if you spot the small fire quickly. By the time smoke is high up in the air, the fire has likely grown larger than this drone can handle.
- systemvoltage 5y agoDrones are horizontally scalable. Instead of one, 50 can go extinguish the fire.
- joelbondurant1 5y ago
- NAR8789 5y agoThat sounds like a scene straight out of factorio. I'm not sure whether that's delightful or concerning.
- stickfigure 5y agoYou're going to need way more than 50, and they'll need to coordinate dropping on a wide flame front. Also, it's not clear what they're using as a retardant - powders and gasses are almost useless in wildland fires. You need water. That said, what would be really useful is a surveillance drone we can send out when someone phones in a smoke report. 9 out of 10 times the call is nothing, but we still have to suit up, drive to the station, get in the engine, and go investigate.
- dreamcompiler 5y agoYou're off by a few orders of magnitude. It's more like 50,000, and that would only work for a very small fire. Water is heavy and it takes a lot of it to counteract the heat generated by a wildland fire. Which is why water is not the primary tool for fighting wildland fires: McLeods, chainsaws, and bulldozers are. Fuel removal along a one-dimensional perimeter is much easier than bringing in massive quantities of water across a huge two-dimensional area.
- systemvoltage 5y agoI thought we're talking about first 10 minutes of fire. Not firefighting after it has accelerated.
- buttscicles 5y agoYeah, I'd like to know how it's spotting these fires