Invention – the seed bomb
May 13, 2009
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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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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