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AI6YR Ben

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where the water infrastructure is old and unlikely to have recycled water anytime soon. It also won't stop embers from being thrown 2 miles, but it would be another layer in the Swiss cheese defense strategy for fire (like with COVID protection) -- banana buffers would significantly slow the ground-level progression of a fire into a neighborhood at the WUI, and home hardening would prevent embers from catching the house on fire.

I have a new project as well, focused on instantaneous detection of wildfires -- a Purple Air style crowdsourcing system for early fire detection:

dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3666025

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ACM ConferencesFireLoc: Low-latency Multi-modal Wildfire Geolocation | Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
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AI6YR Ben

@silentLurker Ha!

Forgot Professor Raghavan is here following me 🤪

#bananas #wildfires

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"Hi Ben,

Long time, hope you're well. As usual I was reading your Mastodon posts and saw you posted a link to my research on banana fire buffers (the LAist article from a few years back). The idea came out of my personal passion for growing fruits (as a CRFG member) and as someone who grew up here and has followed California climate and weather research for a long time.

The challenge for banana buffers is that it requires recycled water infrastructure -- which might work well for new developments in Riverside, Orange, and San Diego counties but won't work well in LA County..."

Hi Ben, Long time, hope you're well. As usual I was reading your Mastodon posts and saw you posted a link to my research on banana fire buffers (the LAist article from a few years back). The idea came out of my personal passion for growing fruits (as a CRFG member) and as someone who grew up here and has followed California climate and weather research for a long time. The challenge for banana buffers is that it requires recycled water infrastructure -- which might work well for new developments in Riverside, Orange, and San Diego counties but won't work well in LA County where the water infrastructure is old and unlikely to have recycled water anytime soon. It also won't stop embers from being thrown 2 miles, but it would be another layer in the Wwiss cheese defense strategy for fire (like with COVID protection) -- banana buffers would significantly slow the ground-level progression of a fire into a neighborhood at the WUI, and home hardening would prevent embers from catching the house on fire.
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AI6YR Ben

If LA has access to water in the future, this would be cool.

I have considered converting my side yard into a banana garden fed exclusively on greywater from my washing machine for years, as a wildfire measure, and this bolsters those thoughts. (the main issue has been: haven't found the right variety of banana for the cool weather--I have been trying various ones for a decade with no joy. That said, we are shifting the climate so fast, it may be the planet is now warm enough bananas will survive better in winter)

h/t @silentLurker

laist.com/news/banana-trees-so

LAist · A Totally Bananas Idea? Planting Tropical Fruit Trees To Help Fight California WildfiresBy Jacob Margolis
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