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Electronics => Projects, Designs, and Technical Stuff => Topic started by: robin_ on August 14, 2015, 11:41:33 am

Title: [Concept] Siberian methane combustion quadrocopter mosquito
Post by: robin_ on August 14, 2015, 11:41:33 am
This video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM0hczFNDZI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM0hczFNDZI)

just gave me an idea how to weaken the greenhouse effect of methane being released from perma-frost. The idea is basically to build swarms of methane consuming quadrocopters that combust the methane into the weaker greenhouse gas CO2 (and water vapor). Something like this:

(https://i.imgur.com/FE3x2k9.png)

It would detect methane leaks with a Telpos Hyper-Cam Methane (http://www.telops.com/en/hyperspectral-cameras/hyper-cam-methane). The needle could possibly be made of a light heat resistant plastic or carbon-carbon composite fibers.

Perhaps other designs are conceivable, for example a very light, gliding aircraft that simply pierces the ground, ignites the methane directly and uses the explosion for uplift.
Title: Re: [Concept] Siberian methane combustion quadrocopter mosquito
Post by: unitedatoms on August 14, 2015, 02:14:57 pm
You can drive over ice on the truck for miles in winter there. There is also a history of seasonal temporary rail roads put on top of the ice. The plastic mosquito has to be 5 ton may be to fall from 100 m to break that ice of this thickness.