Minderoo announces $16m wildfire tech competition | Cosmos Briefing

The Minderoo Foundation is moving on its ambitious project to detect wildfires within minutes announcing a global prize to encourage new ideas.
Half of the prize is for a team that can best autonomously detect and suppress a high-risk fire in a 1000 km2 area in 10 minutes.
The second half is for accurately detecting all fires across a landscape larger than entire states or countries within a minute and precisely characterising and reporting data within 10 minutes.
Cosmos Science journalist Jacinta Bowler spoke to Karen O’Connor at the Australian Space Forum in Adelaide.
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[@sydneyboxed6854]

Why does it sound like the prize is rigged? Detect & suppress in a 1000km2 within 10 minutes! That would mean it would have to travel at least 180km/h if the area was perfectly symmetric (root of 1000km = 31km in 10 minutes), probably more like 300-500km/h to include the time to suppress the fire.
The only viable solution already exists, its called a water bomber plane, as even a helicopter couldn't do that.
A Canadair CL-215 costs $30million, the $16million prize is simply a down payment.

[@vikiestracener259]

Liar