Drones Revolutionizing Agriculture

[ORAC]

Drones are changing the face of agriculture -CapX

The end of crop spraying pilots as a nomadic tribe - just as pipeline inspecting drones are decimating the field? And in logging, logistics etc.

Let a,one the report I saw today of Amazon looking at putting "roosts" on street lights etc for their drones to land and drop off deliveries...

http://uk.businessinsider.com/amazon...tations-2016-7

[Yamagata ken]

It's happening here. Up until about 3 years ago we had a clutch of helicopters fly in for crop spraying. For the past 3 years we've had 3 men with two vans and two seriously serious radio-controlled helicopters (Yamahas IRRC). It makes sense here as fields and individual landholdings are very small. A few hectares at most.

[Gertrude the Wombat]

Originally Posted by ORAC

Let a,one the report I saw today of Amazon looking at putting "roosts" on street lights etc for their drones to land and drop off deliveries...

Good luck with that one - the street light replacement programmes currently under way in the UK are putting in columns that are just about strong enough to take the lights. As soon as you ask to put something else on them, such as a road sign or CCTV camera, the answer is "no, the column isn't specced to take any additional wind loading".

[cwatters]

Google suggests a typical Amazon warehouse processes 35 orders per second. Thats a lot of drones even if only 1% go by drone or one drone delivers multiple orders.

[ORAC]

Good luck with that one - the street light replacement programmes currently under way in the UK are putting in columns that are just about strong enough to take the lights.

And name a UK council which won't bite Amazons arm off if they offer to replace and pay for their street lights and pick up the electricity bill? And incidentally have the opportunity to offer WiFi and digital TV to everyone in the footprint, bypassing the BT "final mile" copper road block? And I'm pretty sure the same applies in a lot of countries/states.

An undercover operation to steal the shorts of an awful lot of ISP companies...

[Gertrude the Wombat]

Originally Posted by ORAC

And name a UK council which won't bite Amazons arm off if they offer to replace and pay for their street lights and pick up the electricity bill?

All the ones that are just into the first few years of 25-year PFI contracts with the likes of Balfour Beatty?

[ORAC]

Even cheaper, they just have to offer them a cheaper deal without the hassle of involving he public....

[Tourist]

Originally Posted by Gertrude the Wombat

All the ones that are just into the first few years of 25-year PFI contracts with the likes of Balfour Beatty?

So they buy Balfour Beatty with small change then....

[Tourist]

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