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Amazing 😮 Reposted from @freedom_faction - Thoughts? Human hands can’t #PlantTrees fast enough to keep up with #industrialdeforestation These drones can plant trees 10 times faster at a fraction of the cost. The math is simple. #Humans are #CuttingDown 15 billion trees a year and #Replanting only 9 billion, creating an annual net loss of 6 billion trees. #PlantingTrees by hand is time consuming and expensive, making it difficult to keep up with bulldozers clear-cutting over 40 football fields of #Trees every minute. We’ve had impressive efforts, such as India planting 66 million trees in a day, but that was a large-scale event, which required organizing millions of volunteers. It would be difficult to recreate something like that on a regular basis. Luckily, a former #NASAEngineer has developed drones that can plant 100,000 trees per day each. Multiply that by 165 drones, and we could easily fill the 6-billion-tree gap we face each year. The drones, designed by the U.K. startup #BioCarbonEngineering are far more efficient than humans at planting trees for several reasons: 1. They’re faster. At about one tree per second, they can plant trees ten times as fast as a human could. 2. They’re cheaper. Drones do the job at about 20 percent of the cost of humans, according to the #WorldEconomicForum 3. They can plant where humans can’t. Because there is no heavy machinery involved, drones can plant in hard-to-reach areas that have no roads or steep, inaccessible terrain. 4. They may have higher success/survival rates. When humans scatter seeds, it’s hard to tell how many will actually sprout and grow into trees. The drones use #Technology to increase the odds, gathering and analyzing all sorts of information, such as surface topology, surface composition, #Soil type, and moisture in the area, to avoid planting in places seeds would be doomed from the start. #DronePlantingTrees is a two part process: First, one drone scans the terrain and develops a 3-D map of the area. The BioCarbon Engineering team uses the map to develop a unique planting pattern. #BetterAir #FasterGrowth #TreesAreTerriffic 🖐🏾 👇🏾#IAm_MsJohnson 💞 - #regrann https://www.instagram.com/p/BvQDAynBTMW/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=rur03qnu1aq1