China Is Deploying Smog-Busting Drones So Its Airports Can Stay Open

With smog in Beijing so bad it ’s forcedpilots to bring down blindand officials toshut down the airdrome , China has unveiled a Modern plan to test drones that spray smog - clearing chemical around airports . How will it work ?

trial for these raw parafoil poke — basically a drones with parachutes — will begin later this calendar month at airports around China , concord to theSouth China Morning Post . A drone like this can carry some 1,500 pound of smog - clarification chemicals to clear a 3 knot radius around the aerodrome . And it ’s easy enough to control and land , which is important given all the air traffic .

Parafoil soft - wing radio-controlled aircraft have some considerable advantage over planes or desex - wing drones . For one , they ’re heck of a lot tawdry , with operating costs at just 1/10 of those for fixed - wing drones . They can also express three times as much system of weights , which means more smog - busting chemical substance per drone pipe .

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The new lagger programme does n’t peg down what chemicals will be used , but in the past , China has spray silver iodide toseed clouds during drought , and they ’ve proposed thesame for smogginess . In possibility , falling rainwater or snow would institute the contamination down to earth . There ’s another , more nascent proposal of marriage to immobilise pollutants solid in the air withliquid nitrogen .

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The obvious problem with both , however , is that the toxic pollutant in the air merely end up on the terra firma , where they are still toxic pollutant . China does seem to be arrive serious about combatting pollution , but these smogginess - clarification scheme fight the symptom rather than the solution suit of pollution . But sometimes you just have to do what you could . [ South China Morning Post ]

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