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• Ken_At_EM 4y ago
  I love the idea of tree-planting drones planting millions of acres of new forests.
  • antisthenes 4y ago
    Drones can't plant trees, unless they know how to handle a shovel. You can technically drop a bunch of seeds on the ground if you don't care about survival rate, but I wouldn't call that planting.
    • Ken_At_EM 4y ago
      I can’t recall the site but I remember seeing a drone that had some sort of pneumatic seed launcher that could shoot the seed deep enough into the ground.
    • defrost 4y ago
      Australia is using drone planting on steep slopes to revegetate native trees after selectively killing invaders. You're correct that the survival rates are much lower than hand planting with a shovel, this is offset by dropping seed embedded nutrient "balls" that do better than seeds alone and by saturating with expectation of low survival. Cost-wise it's looking to be cheaper than the alternative of slow dangerous scrabbling rope work to lant by hand. The trials will tell.
      • antisthenes 4y ago
        That sounds like an interesting method. Got a link?