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upon considering that russia ,finland, sweden norway and
canada possess the theoretical power to radically destroy
the
global population perhaps by 99% by simply setting ALL of
their boreal forests on fire ( thereby inducing a whiplash
seesaw of immediate global winter induced famine
followed
by massive global warming resulting from the massive c02
increase to the atmosphere-----------it dawned on me they
might be looking for the technology to plan this out.
simply put, you want a drone that can start fires by lazer,
and
is powered by absorbing thermal energy from fires and
storing
it in batteries.
the drone starts a fire . than flies onto the fire to heat up
its
thermal resoivoir, and then flies away to start a fire
elsewhere. in this way the drone can continuously and
unendingly start fires.
set loose approximately 20,000 of these drones across the
upper lattitutdes in the euroasian and north american
continent and you can probably set fire to almost 90%+ of
the
forests in ONE season. thereby destroying much of
humanity
far more thoroughly than any mutually ensured nuclear
destruction scenario.
i'm talking massive die off.
bonus points if the global warming itself or some knock on
effects are sufficient to produce the theoretical hydrogen
sulfide proliferation in the oceans that is theoretically
responsible for the permian extinction ( i believe that if h2s
was the cause it was itself released by volcanoes not due to
global warming........)
note that it is also possible that the massive fires create
enough N0x aerosols to create a longer enduring global
winter than the one that would simply result from the short
term blocking of sun due to quickly falling soot that would
block the sun from the ground for a short while ( aerosols
of
NOx have a longer enduring presence in the atmosphere
reflecting sunlight for a longer period of time. )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal
[notexactly, Aug 12 2016]
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Worth testing in a forest near you? |
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HAHAHAHAHAHA ! MUHWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ! |
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Actually, you had us at // start fires by lazer // |
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// russia ,finland, sweden, norway and canada// |
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Ah, yes, the notorious axis borevil. |
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When that culturally diverse group of countries get together and mutually decide to ignore their own interests and destroy the world - watch out! |
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I bun this on condition that the salamander fire-bathing drones retain their LAZERS. I like the logistics / reasoning behind it. |
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I like this for a scifi concept. Or an adventure movie concept: supervillain has to destroy the world somehow. People would initially blame aliens, then the axis of borevil, then the Danes. It should come down to either the dolphins or the Old Ones or both. |
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Might I humbly suggest that the fires be quenched by a simple and expedient pumping of the atmosphere into space? I here assert that resdiual atmosphere will remain longer at the equator than nearer the poles. Good people can have a tropical vacation while the earth is saved. |
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And storing it there for later retrieval. The atmosphere. That is an important piece of the plan. It probably should have gone on the same page as the first part. |
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Never work with the Canadians, they'd just get bogged down
in bureaucratic arguing over whether or not world-ending
fire drones are a Federal or Provincial responsibility. |
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Wouldn't work in the USA. Put up posters announcing that there's a bag limit on them and anyway they're near-impossible to hit and the whole lot will be blasted out of the sky within hours by Good Ol' Boys toting Granma's Ithaca 10-gauge ... |
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the thing is i did a bit of research on how truly inaccesible
and remote the boreal forests are. |
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the real truth is that the entire worlds fleet of military
manned aircraft would be insufficient to stop this if it
were unleashed. the only way to stop a minimum of 10,000
of these things is to have these very same drones being
used to hunt one another instead of starting fires. |
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or to invent a new type of refueling mechanism for a fleet
of drones that would allow them to reach inaccesible
locations on a PERSISTENT basis. |
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the key to setting entire forests on fire that are larger than
brazil itself in ONE season is drones that are constantly on
the move and NOT CONSTRAINED BY A REFUELING PROBLEM. |
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these forests are so remote that historically, even building
a railroad for regular seasonal and winter access does
nothing but open up dozens of miles of forest within reach
of the rail station. theses forests are huge and truly
difficult to control highly sophisticated technology
designed to access every part of them |
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foremost, this is a logistical challenge, not really a military
challenge. |
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the arson , more than anything, is the source of energy, as
well as the goal of the mission, so in that way it actually is
elegant and beautiful and functional as a real concept. no
doubt darpa is already working on this. |
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many years ago, i wrote about a space tugboat and within a
short period i saw that darpa was working on that tooo....it
could have been a simple coincidence, but at the very
least, greatly creative minds think alike and confirm one
another. |
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I'm not convinced with the thermal power bit. To generate power you need a temperature difference, not just to be hot, so simply landing in the fire or flying over it won't work. |
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So what, you sit in the fire for a bit to heat up, then fly over to the snow and try and suck some power out before you cool off completely? If it were easy to harvest energy from forest fires, we'd already be doing it. |
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This whole thing might be easier if we just built steam powered robot lumberjacks, which used the wood to fuel their boilers. Might need a few million of them to do it in one season though. |
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// I'm not convinced with the thermal power bit. […]
simply […] flying over [the fire] won't work. // |
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//[link]// But how would thermals be able to charge up your multi-kilowatt lasers? |
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