The Drone That’s Saving Ottawa From Poop
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The Drone That’s Saving Ottawa From Poop
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#2The City of Ottawa blames geese for E. coli despite routinely dumping raw sewage into the Ottawa river due to linked storm and sanitary sewers. The beaches are closed after significant rain storms.
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#3works for geese. Will definitely work for people. Khosla may find it very useful.
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#4And next, for our convenience, devices hovering ten feet overhead trailing - and probably also blasting - ads.
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#5The City of Ottawa blames geese for E. coli despite routinely dumping raw sewage into the Ottawa river due to linked storm and sanitary sewers. The beaches are closed after significant rain storms.
Parents (ie. voters) see the poop, they don't see the sewage dumping.
In general, it is like people blaming cats for decimating birds population (in SF parks for example) while people happily gather wild birds' eggs (seems it is popular in Asian cuisine as i saw only Asians doing it).
Note: cats actually protect birds population from rats (who is actually able to eat eggs) and by occasionally eating an ill bird (we've been through this with wolves). Unfortunately cats can't protect birds from people.
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#6Ottawa finally makes Hacker News. Too bad poop-drones are the reason. Some day I have to write a blog post on why I left Ottawa for Silicon Valley.
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#7Bird police eh? I'm not too sure this is a good thing or not, I mean those birds have a right to be there too right?
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#8It's sad that I knew this was about Canada geese as soon as I read the title ;)
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#9Of course you gamify this, imagine a drone that can return 'home' and land on a charger (this is quite doable) when it has low power. Now at a POV camera and WiFi link.
Now setup of video game 'drone consoles' that for $5/15 minutes you can fly a drone and score points by scaring off geese. Some failsafes that don't let the operator fly out of the area, into the water etc. And voila.
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#10High speed airships are probably a better architecture for this application than n-copters. There are remove controlled airships that can do 30 mph and they don't need to expend energy to stay aloft. They also won't fall like a rock out of the sky, so long as their gasbags haven't been punctured.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ecSXRK9ZPk
Depending on the frequency of the wolf-call, speakers to produce them and their power system could be made quite light.