Maybe it's the hacker news app but I can't even scroll this article on my phone without clicking on one of the adverts. I once glimpsed the third paragraph but ended up on Amazon 8 times before giving up.
Reads like an AI written story, maybe with some human editing.
>The prototype already weighed 20 pounds, and in a real firefighting scenario, lugging around a heavy, power-hungry device could be a dealbreaker.
Too heavy? Unlike, I don't know, literally any other fire fighting equipment?
Anyway, it's clearly a silly curiosity and not a serious fire fighting tool. Maybe there is some undiscovered efficient waveguide modified systems that magically puts out forest fires like a wave of a wand but a amplifier and a speaker attached to a tube isn't it.
Not the greatest article, but I love the idea of a fire truck that arrives with fire resistant drones that swarm out, each autonomously extinguishing a small section of fire using sound waves and mist. Definitely still a science-fiction idea, but it’s cool nonetheless. Even if the sound wave idea doesn’t work in practice, they could deliver traditional fire suppression methods at much closer ranges than people can.
I came across these guys working on commercializing it with a bit of a spin on the approach (generating the sound waves a slightly different way): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYUwME-dkC0
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 26.4 ms ] thread>The prototype already weighed 20 pounds, and in a real firefighting scenario, lugging around a heavy, power-hungry device could be a dealbreaker.
Too heavy? Unlike, I don't know, literally any other fire fighting equipment?
Anyway, it's clearly a silly curiosity and not a serious fire fighting tool. Maybe there is some undiscovered efficient waveguide modified systems that magically puts out forest fires like a wave of a wand but a amplifier and a speaker attached to a tube isn't it.