Although Wildfires can be tamed, what can be done about feralfires? Increasingly common in urban environments, feral blazes are typically spawned by escaped domesticated fires, such as unattented backyard trash burnings. Wary of humans, they're found in remote, out-of-sight locations, preferring alleyways and abandoned structures. This problem results from a failure to have our flames spayed or neutered.

3:26 Aren't they afraid this could backfire?

Oh dragon eggs. Good to see that military tech going to a good cause.

I googled "how to start a wildfire" I got 87,600 matches.

"Many of these technologies are still being developed" Sorry, still developing GMO goats

also hey, how about *not* defunding firefighters and park/environmental management organizations instead of introducing even more invasive species? a radical idea, I know.

I'm a volunteer with the Rural Fire Service here in Australia and have been using my personal drone for firefighting and search and rescue purposes for several years now. I can only see them being used and excepted more and more within the firefighting community.

Are goats still in development?

controlled backburning and proper management of wild areas, like native persons had been doing effectively for years, better be on this list. letting debris build up year after year is one big reason fires in recent years have been exponentially more devastating than before.

RELEASE THE GOATS

Can u please do an episode on why it's so important to help thin out overcrowded to help prevent forest fires and help maintain a healthy forest. It's an important thing and many people are misinformed about it.

I used an cropduster company to plant seed on a FWS funded restoration project on the Colorado river, the drones would probably be cheaper.

Easier just to let it burn and don't live or build in or near the woods unless you want to assume the risk of your house and/or body being turned to ash at some point (nearly guaranteed sooner or later, and concrete in cities is far harder to ignite, unless it starts raining ClF3). Lightning caused a major fire that probably burned thousands of square miles every year before humans were here, the world didn't end.

This technology isn't ready for prime time yet, well except goats, goats technology have been perfected for some time now, especially if you give them pets behind their ears!

I had the idea for C-thru augmented reality back in the 1990s but didn't know how to create the tech for it. I'm so glad someone is finally making this for firefighters! :)

They've been using controlled fires for a while to lessen the amount of undergrowth so the fires can't spread as fast or get as hot. That makes them less dangerous and less damaging to the surrounding communities; which is a good thing. Let small controlled fires burn; that way when natural fires do come along they're less likely to spread as far or as hot or as dangerously.

I think, there has been a slip up with the thumbnail. "tech & wildfre" Edit: Good work fixing it!

My favorite “low tech” way to extinguish a fire is called a water bucket Pretty crazy guys I know

Being Italian i'd like to ask: what are 4 high-tech ways to stop coronavirus?

Problem with the fire retardant is that it's also fertiliser, and many areas are already suffering from an overabundance of nutrients, which causes specialised plants that thrive in nutrient-poor ecosystems to go extinct (at least locally). While many areas of forest were kept free of underbrush by the forests being dense enough to not allow for much growth at ground level, a major contributing factor were also large animals which have since been hunted to extinction by humans. Replacing them with goats might help, but are you sure goats are the best choice?

Wonderful - Incendiary Drones! Can't IMAGINE any possible future danger from that technology.

Love that AR visor. I can see that going much further than just fireys.

Permaculture design is a great way of preventing wildfires. With the right earthworks you can slow down the water run off and collect it in ponds and swales to keep things green.

And with goats you can get milk, cheese and even meat. Also can have the kind that gives you yarn too.

Goats have an added benefit in that they are a good food source for wild Bigfoot

_I was not expecting The Goats._

would have been nice to see any mention of Native people's land management techniques that CalFire is starting to investigate

Goats have been used by the US Army to keep grass under control at ammo dumps. Goats don't throw debris that could possibly hit something and start a BAD time.

Rake the forest floors duh!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Drones may be in fact extremely useful but their employment is strictly regulated in certain countries. Here in Italy, for example, drones dispensing liquids are nearly forbidden, it takes a lot of paperwork and even money just to legally test them. Making an extensive use for it is unimaginable right now.

How big does a drone have to be to be able to carry 57 pounds?

I'm surprised nobody's commented about how the thumbnail says "Wildfre" instead of "Wildfire". It's honestly not that big of a deal, but come on, you guys.

We need this now in California, it's scary with the dark sky's and smoke

College students also created a 20 hz subwoofer which disrupts small brushfires.

Not gonna lie, C-Thru reminds me a lot of the VISR system from Halo ODST and that is awesome.

Goats however have a problem in that they will eat everything to the bare ground, including and shrubs and small trees that they can climb, and their climbing abilities are quite amazing.

Also goat can taste great too.

OK lets diskuse abouth few ideas i got many many years ago . First one - vacuum bomb used on big wild fires sucks the air around and puts down the fire, or with the strong blast second one - High pressure Water pipe grids in the wildfire zones at least in the town areas or sand dust blowers shooter where water are not reachable. The third one - house saving unburning tents from burning. 4- sound waves against fire. 5- invent unburnable plants and plant them in the risk places

32 seconds, great timing for a great channel

This video makes it sound like using goats is a new thing?? I've been seeing them on around NorCal on grassy hills since I was in elementary school in the 90s

8:58 I can't see goats eating pine needles and pine cones that litter the forest floor in my area. The pine needles can be over a meter deep under certain trees around here. It is the natural forest litter that is a threat around here.

Goats are a pest species in many places for exactly the reason described. They eat native plants and spread weed seeds.

Im glad they are called Dragon eggs. Thats kinda dope.

I've been thinking about small drone robots that could spot fires and call in heli-bots

1LITTLE problem if you don't remove a brush,branch,or manage your forest IT WILL BURN out of control. Ask the people not the radicals and you might learn that.

They better get this technology out there fast, because I hate forest fire smoke that gets blown all over the place by wind. I want my clear sunshine! And I am pretty sure everyone wants their clear sunshine too!

Please do a video on distributed computing as an update to protein folding (F@H)

The problem with back burning and hazard reduction burns is that with climate change the window for safe burns are getting smaller. One rainy or windy day and it cancels that chance.

The AI/AR part was really interesting and I bet that will save a lot of lives.

"are you down with app? Yeah you know me. "

I'm working on novel x-ray detectors for my PI that might one day be used for forest fire detecting cubesats, all the most fun options in science involve going to space

I am extremely skeptical of the first option, APP. The producers of the product claim "they believe it is safe for wildlife" but have they actually tested it on wildlife in long-term (multigenerational) studies? If they have tested it on anything, it's probably just looking for the LD50 in lab mice and maybe honeybees. I wouldn't trust this stuff unless it was tested in every major Order of animals in the proposed use area (that would likely mean about 25 Orders of insects, plus more of arachnids, gastropods, worms, plants, fungi, birds, mammals, reptiles, and fish). This is the one technology on this list that I hope does not go into further development and use, and that I hope actually gets faded out of the use it is already in.

wildfires nowadays leveling up their game too. we saw fire-nado (fire tornado) in carr fire and we saw a blizzard of embers in campfire

The next step in fire prevention technology: Flying Goats

good points. I liked this video.

Honestly, knowing that we don’t just pour water or just wait for a wildfire to stop is reassuring. Also, why do we name things so strangely? Like, why do we call them “dragon eggs”? And I don’t feel good about drones committing arson...

And goats also have the added advantage of being delicious. I had some goat curry the other day and it was wonderful.

Thermal image seen by smoke-blinded fire-fighter lost in the middle of a wildfire: nothing but BRIGHT WHITE in all directions!

Why is there such an obsession of using drones? Fixed-wing R/C aircraft would have a larger payload and longer loiter times. Maybe the actual droppers as drones because they're easier for a computer to control, but the scouting ones would benefit a lot more from longer ranges.

Thank you🌲🌳🌱🔥🔥 D'awe goats🐐🐐

A sudden change in wind direction could cause a backfire plan to backfire.

Such *adorable* little goats! I'm jealous of whomever got the assignment to capture their adorable-ness.

It takes a long time, but a field becomes a forest... the forest grows older with debris collecting on the ground and older trees dying and drying out. Then along comes a thunderstorm and a fire starts... the forest becomes a field again. And the circle continues. It is only a matter of time before aged woodlands catch fire, that is how nature is. So why not go into areas that are prime for fires and harvest the older trees for 2x4s, plywood, etc. and harvest the diseased trees for firewood, and replant as the trees are felled? This is opposed to cutting down every last tree in a given area. Sure it would cost more to do it "surgically". But consider the money saved if it ends up reducing wildfires. It won't eliminate them completely, but it would reduce the amount of dead wood and debris available to burn.

To set a great back fire. Use clorienetrifluoride ( CLF 3 ) it's guaranteed to burn anything it touches. Just pick where you want it send in the drones and stand back.

Stay clean and safe people. By protecting yourself you may be saving a friend - who has a condition they have not told you about for example diabetics are vulnerable to covid.

Why don't we just let the seed drones loose over deforested areas for the good of the environment

It seems that in the case of replanting large conventional aircraft would be quicker and more efficient than drones? For the replanting, the flight is not particularly dangerous as it is for action firefighting and can be done from a somewhat higher altitude. Might it not be possible to adapt fire fighting planes to be able to drop a slurry of gelled fertilizer, seeds, and soil? I'm going to guess that the idea time for replanting doesn't coincide with fire season, so the aircraft would not be needed as much for their primary job. Plus additional flight hours for the crews to keep them sharp.

I heard the word "fire" so many times, it made me think of Beavis saying "FIRE! FIRE! FIRE!" lol I think it's from the movie but maybe it was an episode..

Those goats are really firefighting GOATs

"Dragon Egg" spheres? COME ON, THAT'S FRIGGIN COOL!

Great use of the drones!

If you want to make a fluid VSCO-elastic, just put it in a hydro flask

we've had to evacuate many times over the years due to wildfires, but my first thought when thinking if goats could be used to help was, "they'd just get eaten by coyotes..."

The viscoelastic fluid has the properties of both rubber and gum.

One of those drones in the hands of a pyromaniac would wreak havoc. No idea how big that park in New York is and so the comparison isn't helpful.

love goes out to all koalas

Wow, thanks for all this information. As i live in an area that never sees natural wildfires i did knew quite less about this topic. Let's just hope that some of these techs don't get in the wrong hands... but goats. Goats for everyone ;D

The sticky fire retardant has several ecological drawbacks, though. They're being asked to be more picky about when and where to use it.

How does a backfire help? Wouldn't wildfire stop once it reached the containment line anyway?

I can't wait until GOAT technology gets out of early access

I'm not clear on how the drone-backfire technique improves anything based on the animation. It looks to me like the raging fire will burn to the river and be forced to stop because it can't cross the river. If you start a backfire between the river and the raging fire, the backfire will burn towards the raging fire AND towards the river's edge. In this case, all the land that the raging fire would incinerate is going to burn anyway. I can see that wind direction might play an issue with the drone-backfire but that would require more than just the drone. You would need fire fighters making sure that the backfire only burned towards the raging fire. They would have to prevent the backfire from heading towards the river.

i seriously thought the low-tech one was the bucket or woolen blanket, i'm so silly ofcourse it's an grassing animal, but that might actually be more high-tech than the others

Regulations the limit what firefighters can do to minimize the potential of wildfires in places like California surely are unrelated. “Just ignore all that kindling that we can’t burn out like we really need to do. This is global warming...er...climate change.”

C-Thru Optics in CS Go - anti Smoke Grenade

Dragon Eggs? NERDS!! That's a direct reference to Wheel of Time, where they develop artillery for the first time in-world and call the cannonballs Dragon Eggs. I love nerds so much!

Hope that the goat technology, still in development, will get better soon, it looks really promising

If you are looking for a way to plant trees you can switch from google to ecosia they are a search engine that plants trees

I just can't stop thinking of goatburgers now...

Is the thumbnail supposed to say that

Native Americans used to set wild fires to clear out brush in hunting grounds when it would get over thatched that a deer couldn't walk through.

I thought that only I could stop wildfires

What would app and all the other chemicals do to the living creatures in the forests

Trying to prevent things from happening is futile. You'll only make things worse when they finally happen. Smoky the Bear helped lower global forest fires, but the overgrowth made the fires that happened later be far bigger. Even good things have consequences.

I notice "rakes" weren't mentioned!

♫ You down with A.P.P.? ♫ YEAH YOU KNOW ME! \o/

I can't wait until goats come out

What about strategic logging?

And what does app do to people?

I'm surprised I can't find much on IoT smoke alarms 🤔

Sweep the floors of the forest! Bigly!