Tree Planting Drones
By
Abin Thomas
Mentor:
Nisha Joseph
•Since the past 30 years the world’s lost over 300 million acres of trees. We as humans should take action against global warming by reforesting.
•The “Air Seed Technologies” have developed a technology that can plant trees using drones. By using a technique called “Swarming” one person can fly 5 drones simultaneously. Manually 800 trees can be planted in a day but with the help of this technology 40,000 trees can be planted a day by a team of two people.
•Seeds are placed in the seed pod and the germination rate of the seed pods planted is approximately 80%. The seed pods carries over a gram of carbon, nutrients, mycorrhizae to assist their roots and everything this plant needs to get healthy.
•The seeds are protected from insect, rodents and birds, before germinating.
•CO2 is critical to our survival and if we could take all the agricultural lands in the world and lift it by at least 1% then we could remove more CO2 than what we’re pumping out through our energy sectors.
•Hence we can give the next generation whatever the Earth is left in a more sustainable way.