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4) reduce utility ignitions through better vegetation management, undergrounding, and ESPS
Climate change is an exacerbating factor for sure (dryer and hotter) but not the primary cause
Even with all this, some fires (like this one) may be largely unavoidable with current technology
I love the idea, but I'm quite skeptical that drones can be an effective solution. If a fire ignites in dry brush, how many drones do you think it will take to put it out 10 minutes later?
Very much a function of fuels, moisture and wind. But the sooner you get there the easier it is and drones have large advantages there in propositioning and autonomy vs aircraft
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Since you know this space, has anyone tried fused silica parachute cloth? At its thinnest, its ~1000 pounds / acre. It's reusable, acts as a soot and spark barrier, could be pre positioned to cover buildings / fuel, withstands temperatures of ~1700°C, ...
Those are very expensive active measures. Better ones:
1) Stop building homes out of wood. Go for modern hollow bricks and concrete.
2) Stop building cities in contact with forests. Mandate an empty safety belt around inhabited areas.
This is all good, but no apparent innovation in actually protecting structures. We’re still fighting fire as we did 2000 years ago, put water on it!
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Danielle Fong 
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drone beavers to gather the firebrush
drone birds to water bomb the fires
a fire department that has resources focused on fire and not drug od’s
Could you do this? This would be within individual’s control
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Indira Negi
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Can’t there be a roof top sprinkler system that makes your house soaking wet (from the outside) if there is a fire in your region?
Feels like it wouldn’t be hard to build and surely many people could afford it
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I like it. And I think it makes sense to design in strategic fire breaks in and around communities in high wildfire risk. Spark propagation in 80 mph winds is difficult to mitigate, but every bit helps especially synergistically.
Half a bill budget -
Outsource it to several private companies and provide a zone-based $50-$150mm bounty if 1 quarter without wild fires.
Zone based (ranges of zipcodes). I GUARANTEE you amazing human efforts will come out of this.
Bro literally 10’s of 1000’s of acres of bush. No amount of management can fix that with the type of winds you see seeing
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Natural fire breaks need to be brought back. As someone who lives in BC we’ve seen what the forestry and lumber industry do when they replant. And it’s only putting in the trees they want not what the forest actually needs to maintain itself.
AI & autonomous drones can help detect early and even dowsing the flames before they get out of control
Removing deadwood as Trump said long ago would be the easiest solution.
One of the more important high-level things is you have to let the marketplace price risk properly. Let the policy premiums go sky high if they have to. Correct pricing encourages economic solutions.
LA is such a rich county, why can't it just do drip irrigation via a network of pipes during dry season? Surely a wet field is much harder to burn and impedes the speed of spreading fire
Isn’t 2 exactly ’s biggest use case (apart from the drone suppression of course but could be a great partnership)
#Evacuation planning is severely lacking in New Mexico - we need that, too.
Agree, 100%. Wildfire mitigation and detection through the three tactics you outlined are important.
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makes me think about it every time I hear about a forest fire. I think there should be a way to places civilisation a little further away from forest to reduce the impact on human lives even if there is a breakout. This can be done using maps and mark safe zones from forest fires
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Forest management needs a massive scale-up to tackle wildfires effectively.
Shut the fuck up 
tech isn’t getting us out of an existential climate crises you fucking numbnuts. Changing the way we consume energy is the only way. Fuckin douche.
tech isn’t getting us out of an existential climate crises you fucking numbnuts. Changing the way we consume energy is the only way. Fuckin douche.