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Title    Fire-Starting UAV Trialled
Date    Thursday May 05 2016, @08:04PM
Author    n1
Topic   
from the robotic-keith-flint-is-high dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/05/05/1651245

butthurt writes:

Roboticists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have fitted a pilotless helicopter with a system that injects an unspecified glycol (probably ethylene glycol) into hollow balls containing potassium permanganate, causing a hypergolic reaction. The flaming balls are dropped in a preprogrammed pattern, in order to start fires.

The drone, called the Unmanned Aerial System for Fire Fighting, is being trialled for bringing about "prescribed burns" for fire management and for limiting the spread of invasive organisms. Such work can pose a risk to people who perform it, and must sometimes be done in rugged terrain.

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Links
  1. "butthurt" - https://soylentnews.org/~butthurt/
  2. "ethylene glycol" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethylene_glycol
  3. "potassium permanganate" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium_permanganate
  4. "hypergolic" - http://www.ilpi.com/msds/ref/hypergolic.html
  5. " Popular Science " - http://www.popsci.com/firestarting-and-bomb-dropping-drones-for-good
  6. " The Daily Nebraskan " - http://www.dailynebraskan.com/news/unl-group-works-to-develop-drone-tech-for-controlled-burns/article_bddd7260-8101-11e5-a47b-d7b4728e3807.html
  7. " Lincoln Journal-Star " - http://journalstar.com/news/local/fire-dropping-drone-could-do-risky-work-for-conservationists-firefighters/article_11c2f337-d632-5b79-b04a-a2dbee47f7bc.html
  8. "SlashGear" - http://www.slashgear.com/drone-designed-at-university-of-nebraska-lincoln-is-meant-to-start-fires-09413708/
  9. "Firefighter Nation" - http://www.firefighternation.com/article/news-2/researchers-test-drones-use-fighting-grass-fires
  10. "ABC News" - http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/nebraska-researchers-test-firefighting-tool-drones-38609707
  11. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=13530
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