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Invention – the seed bomb

by Marshall Brain

We spend a lot of time looking at weapons, but here is one “bomb” that is meant to be creative rather than destructive:

Seedbomb Instills Fear And Plants Trees

It’s a cluster bomb filled with seed bomblets. You might drop the bomb after a forest fire to help speed up recovery.

This idea led me to Google where I found this video:

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I don’t know if his design is optimal. But it does bring up a good question – is it possible to use bomb technology to spread plants onto vacant land in urban areas?

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2 Responses to “Invention – the seed bomb”

Robert Lamb says:

Cool, I touched on this in one of my 10 Planet Hacking Schemes blog posts just the other day:

http://blogs.howstuffworks.com/2009/05/11/10-planet-hacking-schemes-no-10-foresting/

~rl

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