Gigantic airships to fight forest fires
June 24, 2002 5:45 AM Subscribe
Gigantic airships to fight forest fires
An airship carrying just under one million litres (265,000 gallons) of water could release an artificial rainstorm over wildfires. It's a big project, but airships with that kind of lift capacity are already in the works.
An airship carrying just under one million litres (265,000 gallons) of water could release an artificial rainstorm over wildfires. It's a big project, but airships with that kind of lift capacity are already in the works.
I heard Matt Lauer this morning on Today talking to an official about accusations from certain Republicans that these fires wouldn't be so bad if environmentalists would allow more logging.
Did anyone actually hear anybody say this?
posted by boost ventilator at 7:04 AM on June 24, 2002
Did anyone actually hear anybody say this?
posted by boost ventilator at 7:04 AM on June 24, 2002
fires wouldn't be so bad if environmentalists would allow more logging.
It isn't the trees that are burning (at first) it's all the needles and branches and junk on the forest floor that accumulates over many years. If there were less of that through controlled burns or removal then the fires wouldn't be so hot and fast and wouldn't be able to readily burn the trees.
posted by plaino at 7:33 AM on June 24, 2002
It isn't the trees that are burning (at first) it's all the needles and branches and junk on the forest floor that accumulates over many years. If there were less of that through controlled burns or removal then the fires wouldn't be so hot and fast and wouldn't be able to readily burn the trees.
posted by plaino at 7:33 AM on June 24, 2002
Wow. Moral of story...if you're gonna go camping in the boonies, take a garden rake along and clear out all the forest floor down to bare dirt for a 50-yard radius of where you intend to build the fire. The loggers can't get in to do it for you.
posted by alumshubby at 8:13 AM on June 24, 2002
posted by alumshubby at 8:13 AM on June 24, 2002
The moral should be not to live in the woods unless you expect a forest fire now and then.
posted by pracowity at 8:22 AM on June 24, 2002
posted by pracowity at 8:22 AM on June 24, 2002
Maybe the moral should be that people manage forests rather then let them grow out of control and then burn out of control?
posted by insomnyuk at 12:03 PM on June 24, 2002
posted by insomnyuk at 12:03 PM on June 24, 2002
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posted by plaino at 6:20 AM on June 24, 2002