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AI6YR Ben
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In response to this post @silentLurker 2/x 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 (cont)
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AI6YR Ben
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In response to this post @silentLurker 2/x 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 (cont)
3/x " 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
by AI6YR Ben ; Tags: #wildfires #bananas #wildfires #bananas Mentions: @silentLurker@mstdn.social @silentLurker@mstdn.social Likes: 0 Replies: 1 Boosts: 1 |
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AI6YR Ben
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In response to this post @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..."
@silentLurker 2/x 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 (cont)
by AI6YR Ben ; Tags: #bananas #wildfires Mentions: @silentLurker@mstdn.social Likes: 0 Replies: 2 Boosts: 1 |
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AI6YR Ben
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If LA has access to water in the future, this would be cool. I have considered converting my side yard into a banana garden fed exclusively on greywater from my washing machine for years, as a wildfire measure, and this bolsters those thoughts. (the main issue has been: haven't found the right variety of banana for the cool weather--I have been trying various ones for a decade with no joy. That said, we are shifting the climate so fast, it may be the planet is now warm enough bananas will survive better in winter) h/t @silentLurker https://laist.com/news/banana-trees-southern-california-wildfires-climate-change-solution
Banana boat? No, banana MOAT LOL From the article: ""What I would envision doing, all the way from literally the boundary of this house up to the ridge that's above us ... I would've envisioned a banana orchard with a ground cover underneath it that was non flammable," he said."
by AI6YR Ben ; @ai6yr @silentLurker Banana trees are an interesting beast. I have just one word of advice: you need dedicated banana clothes for yardwork. The banana tree sap will PERMANENTLY stain any fabric it comes in contact with. Don't even bother trying to remove the stains, the most you can do is kinda turn them a sickly green. That being said, have fun and please explore as many varieties as you can to help promote disease resistance and biodiversity.
by vxo ; @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..."
by AI6YR Ben ; @ai6yr it would be great if you achieve growing them all year long, their "trunks" store lots of water. I live in a tropical zone, but I went into a 20 minute rabbit hole reading how to overwinter banana plants
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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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