@silentLurker Ha!
Forgot Professor Raghavan is here following me 🤪
His reply:
"Hi Ben,
Long time, hope you're well. As usual I was reading your Mastodon posts and saw you posted a link to my research on banana fire buffers (the LAist article from a few years back). The idea came out of my personal passion for growing fruits (as a CRFG member) and as someone who grew up here and has followed California climate and weather research for a long time.
The challenge for banana buffers is that it requires recycled water infrastructure -- which might work well for new developments in Riverside, Orange, and San Diego counties but won't work well in LA County..."
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AI6YR Ben
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where the water infrastructure is old and unlikely to have recycled water anytime soon. It also won't stop embers from being thrown 2 miles, but it would be another layer in the Swiss cheese defense strategy for fire (like with COVID protection) -- banana buffers would significantly slow the ground-level progression of a fire into a neighborhood at the WUI, and home hardening would prevent embers from catching the house on fire.
I have a new project as well, focused on instantaneous detection of wildfires -- a Purple Air style crowdsourcing system for early fire detection:
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3666025.3699318
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#wildfires #bananas
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https://www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/fireloc-cell-phone-network-wildfire-detection/
I really have been hoping that my fire prevention / detection research projects can proceed to real world tests because I think we really need some new ideas for fire prevention.
-Barath"
#wildfire #prevention #research
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Megan Lynch (she/her)
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