Integrated Strategy v The Oz Fires.
Part 2 of how to stop the fires.
This is the second part of the article that explores if “Integrated Strategies” can solve the fire crisis, the greatest environmental disaster of our time, as it is unfolding in Australia.................
Two true stories of extreme nature and human reaction to crisis.
The events that occurred on the Bounty and the mutiny that occurred due to the fact the crew had very serious concerns about the decision made by Captain Blithe in the context to the crews perceived safety in the context of storms and seas. They feared for their lives due to the decisions made and therefore, ended up taking risks they would otherwise never have considered taking. It is clear to see that whilst people will go along with a situation they consider wrong for so long, yet when it becomes clear their lives are in more danger by not acting on what’s happening than by acting upon it they take major risks they would never have considered previously. It’s the same with animals, it’s the same with people. Fear is a strong motivating factor, the strongest in many ways and is hard wired into our DNA. We like animals have fight or flight responses to the most situations, in the context of The Bounty the crew felt like they had not other choice but to fight in order to have flight.
If we look at the example of The Titanic, the situation is in many ways the opposite. With the situation that occurred by hitting the Iceberg, there was no time for denial, there was no time for discussion or trying to find alternative perspectives of the situation or of the rapidly evolving situation where man through arrogance with man’s unsinkable ship had been stopped in their tracks by just a piece of ice. That is all it took some water in a solid form to burst every human illusion on that ship in a moment. Given the situation however, there was discipline in the way the situation was handled, although the “class” issues did affect who was considered the first people to save. Yet, nature had the final say when they almost all went down into the icy ocean.
The difference between the two stories is the fat that one captain acted as best he could, yet was also pre conditioned by the thinking of his times. The other captain let his arrogance and hsi sense of power get in the way of good reason and the collective wisdom on the boat said no more to unnecessary risks.
Both examples show that the social norms of the day when up against nature, man, survival, fight or flight type instincts. Then in the end human instincts of survival come out on top. Whilst there was mostly calm on the Titanic, to begin with, it did in the end descend into panic. In the context of the Bounty the fear of the situation turned into an escape at any cost. What is notable in both examples is this that there were only losers in both scenarios in the end. Both scenarios were caused by mans arrogance, mans belief that he can get way without factoring nature and or human nature. In both cases there were chance, options, good scientific reasoning to consider modifying the course of action being taken. In both examples these improved courses of action were not taken until it was too late. The thoughts that must have been going through the people’s minds as the Titanic went down were probably not too different to Captain Blithe as he was in a rowing boat. Those thoughts would have been if only I or we had been more conscious, more aware and more sensitive to the situation at the time. These both serve as metaphors to where we are today. Will there be calm decorum when we see cities falling to fire or running out of water? When we see storm systems created by fire doing things to our weather systems we have never seen before or even knew were possible. Today we have 200 MPH winds, we did not have those before. Today were have fluctuations of 37 degrees in arctic regions. These are comparable warning signs to the man that says “Do you not think we should slow down for the Icebergs?” or the man that says the crew are fearful of the decisions made. The decisions that were made in the context of the sea, weather and natures potential danger caused by adverse conditions actions and behaviors that would never likely have happened under any other circumstances. Fear and perceived fear is one of the strongest motivating powers of man and animal on this planet. People every day are seeing witnessing and experiencing a perpetual slide into the scariest of futures. Homes and life’s destroyed all over the world byone form of extreme weather or another.
Every mammal on this planet will cling to life in any way it can when extreme circumstances are created. Therefore, the reality is that the only way to keep calm and to carry on is to get smart and sustainable. It is possible, the first pre-requisite is simply another paradigm of thinking where we are more aware of our daily actions and how we can use our minds to apply our highest thinking together to the whole.
Both the cause of the Titanic sinking and the sinking of the Bounty were to do with man’s relationship with nature being out of kilter with either the reality or the perceived reality of the situation as nature presented it in those particular moments. If 98% of the crew on Titanic would have said to the Captain, we need to slow down. Would they have listened? 98% of Scientists today are saying we need to slow down with emissions. So whilst we have creative, exploratory ideas of what we can do for the future. We have so many really robust, evident, tangible examples in the past to call upon on how man’s folly with nature caused a whole lot of problems that once they began there were no good ways through. Today there are good ways through. However, the 98% of Scientists that are saying slow down have to be listened to in order to find the best way through. Then maps, guides that can potentially help find us a way through should be listened to and not just have a few of their ideas borrowed as a quick fix for now. There were no quick fixes for the Titanic, there are no quick fixes for today either. There are short, medium and long term repairs that can be done. Without all three there are no quick fixes. The solution has to be sustainable and long term and in order to get there has to be coherence of their really wanting to be an answer in leadership and all civil society as whole. As an organism as a synergistic fusion of cooperative thinking and actions towards a shared goal, That goal like for those on the ship examples is nothing less than our survival. Our survival requires and is dependent upon nothing less than the very best decisions made today. We either a get through this together or we don’t get through at all. In the context of climate change there is not a worst case scenario, only an extinction scenario or a survival scenario. The survival scenario presented here is realistic, achievable and would best be attempted now. If it doesn’t work 100% now, then we can greatly value our errors and have time to correct and improve them as a process. By not trying something, anything new we remain at the same point and whilst there are elements to my plan that can only ever be known when applied, not applying them when there are no better new ideas is not bringing these fires anywhere closer to being solved.
. We have to try something new and this provides the basis of the best answer I can come up with. That would improve without question as a learning process once applied.
In recent months many people and ? a billion animals have died in the fires in Australia is haunting and so much more than can ever be perceived, we do have to try harder to find the answers. We can seek to be smarter, we can be more communicative, we can link climate thinking with ways to adjust society and propose concepts, we can fund obvious answers we can consider less obvious answers. We can look to new ways to cooperate, strategize and evolve, yet there is no escaping from the fact we have to de-carbonize our economies, use carbon better in the soil, and find ways to avoid the creation of carbon dioxide from forests. Our future is more to do with how we deal with the problem that the problem itself. How we related to carbon and control, use and manage this. We can all be a part of the answer, we can all save the world in our various disconnected and connected ways, if the governments, and companies and organizations help organize. Shout out the solutions and shut down those that are too confused to understand the basic science that tells us we need to change fast.
What is the answer to solving Australia’s bush fires over the immediate, medium and longer term combined? Starting from the dreamers perspective.
1. Reduce emissions substantially.
2. Use and drop “Eco-oxygen absorbing fire suppressants”. This is a natural biodegradable liquid that smothers the fire and at the same time absorbs and holds the oxygen so that the fire is starved of it’s oxygen supply and thus reduces and burns out. The only issue is this has not yet been invented. Why is this written as a solution then? Is that unscientific? This is about survival and presenting what is required and promoting this improves the chances substantially of it being invented by someone with the specialist skills for this. We haven’t got this option yet, so have to look at what we can do and much as what we can do if there is the funding, help and scientific support for finding new answers. What the mind can perceive and believe, it can achieve. Necessity is the mother of invention, There are many examples in history where inventions came into being through challenges to make the discovery as well as rewards. If a scientific organization or government to put up the funds for this innovation the way to do this would be found. Maybe the United Nations can work on this or the EU?
3. Sky Vacuum- This is a devise that works in reverse to a the principles of the combustion engine. A combustion engine turns a liquid into a gas and creates propulsion, yet produces a by-product of gas which goes into the atmosphere. The Combustion reverser does the opposite. It takes gas from the air, filters it and then transforms it into either liquid or solid. If carbon dioxide can be converted in this way then this can produce carbon particles which then can fall back to Earth from the atmosphere and actually enrich the soil. This also has not yet been invented. However, by promoting this, again this provides an answer where the vision can again be met with the funding and innovation required if the message is promoted widely enough. Then once invented these can be transported into the atmosphere and work on an ongoing basis. This way a combination of Sky vacuum and Eco-absorption fire suppressants are the answers. We are not there though, so we have the choice only to reduce emissions as much as possible, get very coherent in how we promote solutions and answers, use our best technologies to the maximum that help provide answers ie renewable energy combined with trees, and major on replicating the biodiversity that’s been lost and provide a very substantial advantage to species that absorb CO2 the most. Whilst the two above potential inventions are perhaps a long way off. What is not are the innovations in the rest of the document. These currently do not exist in the world, however with funding can be operation and helping to start putting the fires out within two weeks. They have not been tried and tested, no reports other than this written on them, however we really are desperate to get these fires out any new method that can substantially improve on existing methods has got to be tried.
What additional resource are required for the invention of the two technologies which solve the Australian bush fire crisis?
Substantial amounts of funding, which is obtainable through many forms of green economic models that provide and generate vast social capital that helps better look after the community and helps communities find the help and resources they need to re-build their lives and create employment. There have been major donations by businesses towards relief efforts, however it could be stepped up and be more coordinated to encourage some, many or all other companies to cooperate towards helping. They earn their money from the planet first and foremost and therefore should like house holders contribute . Every business in Australia is dependent upon a stable environment. It’s unfair that volunteers have been paying some of the costs and risking life and limb themselves and therefore government and company financial help should be very much encouraged and can help improve people’s resources and equipment for tackling the fires. If anyone is putting their own effort, energy and risk into fighting these fires, they should not be spending money in any way to do this. It is in the interest of everyone in Australia and every company and government employee that these fires are out and therefore for those taking the most risk, they should be very well looked after. If that means changing capitalism then so be it, capitalism has got to accept that without a viable and stable environment capitalism cannot exist. If people are putting in the effort and energy to put these fires out, then companies and those with financial means should provide funding to assist these extraordinary people in every way they can.
What “An Integrated Strategy” for extinguishing the fires in Australia would look like.
1. Much of the population engaged in helping in one way or another and the consideration of the available resources of the country considering sectors including and other than government working towards the same objective. Get the fires out.
2. It would consider both recent and original aboriginal knowledge is in relationship to this situation and whether or not this can be used, adapted improved upon for helping solve today’s issues.
3. It would look for what resources outside of Australia that can be used that can help potentially solve other seemingly unrelated issues.
4. It would look to find what resources can be found to help locally and how to use resources to reduce the impact of next year.
5. Consider both high-tech, low tech experimental answers.
6. Consider external causes.
7. Social space logistic centres in each community.
8. It would look to the best high-tech options and see how these can be adapted into being lesser cost Intermediate technologies to achieve the same goal.
9. An Integrated Strategy would look towards continuous improvement with the first starting point being all ideas are valid and worth considering. There are no silly or wrong concepts worthy of consideration any potential idea to get out of the current uncontrolled situation is of some validity and worthy of consideration and debate. Any really great solution to any problem could start out as an idea that seemed unviable to some. That is a constant with every invention and innovation in the world. There are always critics. Their critical thinking thought can and should be respected and harnessed for a process of refining and improvement.
10. Respect and appreciation to everyone involved in this to date. People are doing their best under the circumstances. This situation was not of anyone’s choosing, Nobody wants to see Australia is this way, we all want a solution. Therefore, finding ways to reward actions to getting the fire put out, showing appreciation for those on the front line and encouraging the outcome a fire free Australia is a goal that can be shared and embraced and supported both in Australia and beyond.
Planned burning.
FGASA rangers in South Africa learn that a part of the way to help the environment is through controlled burning of some landscapes. This is the same with the indigenous people of Australia. This is accepted as policy. Sometimes planned burning in advance of fires can create buffer areas with no fuel and help put fires out. Therefore, the wisdom of controlled planned burning is ecologically indisputable. When there have been major fires within a year or two the land grows back so much more fertile than before. The following season of dry conditions though can lead to more kindling and worse fires in the bush. So therefore there has got to be really effective planned burning in order to prevent out of control fout of control fires. This can potentially save villages, towns and cities. .
However, in the past the planned burning has not gone ahead due to cut backs on economic resources. From a conservation perspective planned burning is not asymmetrical to protecting species, in fact many species thrive after burning of land and this is why and how this came to be a part of the aboriginal people’s way of land management. Some of the villages, towns and cities under threat today will be as a direct result to planned burning not going ahead in certain areas. In terms of having preventative and planned burnings of land once forest fires have started this is feasible, however it is more risky as the times of the year when this should be carried out are within a narrow time frame to ensure safety and the proper control of fires. What has to be considered though is that planned burning is a part of a very much more complex form of ecological land management. This was one part of the aboriginal way, they had a very much more complex land management model that would not have been too different from “integrated Strategies” therefore, this practice today should not been seen as a single answer but as a part of a much more complex model that looks towards real sustainable land use. It is really no good at all plucking one aspect of the great wisdom of the aboriginal people and believing that is the answer. The aboriginal people think in terms of complex interconnected systems that are synergistic to the thinking of “Integrated Strategies” therefore their thinking and my thinking would align to suggest that rather than having one aspect of their thinking applied look beyond that. Their thinking developed through tens of thousands of years of practice. Our civilization has no thinking or practices today that can come anywhere even close to being able to equal that. Therefore as a sensible and precautionary aspect to my work, I consider it of the highest importance to fully value the insights and practices of the aboriginal people in being able to understand and produce the very best answers to managing the Australian environment better than has been managed in recent decades and centuries. In so many ways, the aborigine people have not all adapted that well to modern western society, yet equally said we have not adapted to the knowledge that they had. Many indigenous Australians still connect with there original ancestral knowledge as they highly value this. They know and had developed ways to survive on some of the harshest landscapes, with the most poisonous snakes and spiders, with minimal water and temperatures into the late 40’s. They mastered there environment, We have not. If knowledge is combined then we can only improve upon how we evolve our relationship with nature.
Somehow today with everything at stake it makes perfect sense to improve the dialogue. It’s highly unlikely they will have all the answers we require to solve the fires, however it is much more unlikely that they will not have anything of substantial value to add to perspectives on the current out of control fire situation.
Centre for Natural Design and Innovation, some findings of my work now applicable for Australia.
Pre-extrapolation theory and basics. In order to fully appreciate the complete strategy it is important to cover the groundwork. When the basics are appreciated then it is possible to move onto the more advanced methods. By understanding the dynamics of fighting the fires by hand, it is then possible to understand the advantage of fighting them by man and machine.
Tool theory
“Look after your tools and your tools look after you.” This old adage has never been so true in the case of Australia. In order to though look after tools it is essential to very closely consider what are the best tools or how can tools be adapted that are better on improved for the work of putting out the fires. Looking after your tools though in this case requires thinking.
Economy of motion is everything with working in the desert.
What rytham is to guitar playing, economy of motion is to working in the desert. It is absolutely fundamental. In terms of how to begin to engage with a desert, live, survive and thrive. It is essential to consider every single action. Every single movement exerts energy is a strain upon the body in one way or another. To reduce this it is essential to consider, hydration, nutrition, movement, use of tools for everything, organizational systems, clothes, communications, methodology of how to place and move items, of how to store equipment, work times, body temperature considerations, relaxation time, sleep time to, sleep time to strategize, effect of foods on the body, smart foods and legal stimulant, vitamin drink use, when to work alone or with others in the context of economy of motion, which materials are best and worse, how to re-use, how and what to repair to save time, how and where to plan, reduced thinking capacities, how to use nature to maximize advantage, how to use topography, which path of travel reduces time provides optimal shade etc. Whilst these factors are essential to consider for optimal economy of motion when working on a fixed site when the habitat is known, they also should be considered in terms of preparations with the instigation of this integrated strategy and in producing the optimal fire fighting equipment, mental attitude, mental and emotional capacities and therefore result.
Whilst tools are essential to consider, equally so too when using tools in the technique, therefore a slight improvement of either tool design or technique in fire fighting is vital when extrapolated over one days work and then over tens of thousands of volunteers. A simple adaption to a tool or a lighter and stronger design extrapolated over 10,000 could save lives, houses, villages, towns or cities. It could even provide just enough additional leverage to get one fire out completely faster and thus be back to concentrate efforts on the next. A slight change of tools and technique today could one day be what can save an entire town tomorrow or with the continuous improvement methodology of “Integrated Strategies” complete with the social networking advantages these improved techniques applied today in the context of this complete plan can potentially improve the results potentially in the very immediate term centainly in some ways, and potentially in many.
So in other words if a person is using a shovel that requires putting the shovel into the ground, one action, push in second action, lifting third action, pouring the lifted content forth action. That with an optimal weighted shovel makes a difference in how much energy is exerted and therefore how long a person can work. That extrapolated over 10,000 volunteers makes the difference as to whether entire houses get saved or even entire villages over the course of the entire country. If there is a material that can be used that is lighter and stronger than it is better. So therefore plastic reinforced with fiber glass handles could be better than wood. Slightly sharpened shovels could be better than non-sharpened, using aluminum mixed metal alloys rather than steal. What is the optimal weight, shape, size, design of all tools.
Clothing
The type of clothing considerations are equally important. In the UK when working on a building site it is very important to have hard hats, goggles, masks, boots, overalls. This is essential for health and safety and makes complete logical sense in the usual temperatures of the UK. However, when we first arrived in Almeria and used the same equipment for “health and safety reasons’ we found in the high temperatures that firstly we sweated more with all the safety equipment, this made us more hot and bothered, more impatient and therefore more likely to actually do things quicker. The fact is in the heat it is harder the think in any case. People are more likely to make mistakes due to this. Therefore, it soon became obvious to us that the more safety equipment we had on the more unsafe we actually were. There is something to working in very high temperatures in comparison to cool temperatures and that is that the mind knows it thinks slower under those conditions and therefore it is possible to develop a more slower, measure twice cut once type of approach to working and in doing so it is possible to reduce safety equipment and actually be safer as a result. So in terms of every article of clothing, it is firstly important to consider colour, consider capacity for movement, capacity to be able to adapt clothing so as to have the optimal clothing at any one time in terms of temperature. A person working that is just slightly hotter than they would consider their optimal temperature for work will tire faster, require more breaks etc. So therefore, again it is vital to consider clothing and if there needs to be adaptations in the materials used then this should be considered. Any clothing that is lighter but stronger and more comfortable should be used. Clothing that reduces the need of the body to sweat, clothing that enables tools to be used in a more economy of motion efficient way should also be considered. Questions should be asked about every aspect of tools and clothes. Alternative better fabrics should be considered, for example Bamboo clothing is lighter, more comfortable, stronger than cotton. It can be either white or printed in fluorescent colors. Can it be produced with fire retardant properties? Would people have better movement if they are using bamboo cloth rather than cotton. Is there a lighter stronger material for helmets, jackets, etc. is there a better way for people to carry items required such as water bottles. Is there a lighter, stronger material that can be used. Would the use of cork help keep drinking water slightly cooler to drink. Essentially every single aspect of tools, clothing and equipment should be considered in depth. Researched, discussed, debated and tested. The fact is that Australia fire fighting has to look into every possible way that it is possible to increase efficiency, impact results better and most essentially help the professional fire fighters and the volunteer fire fighters to feel as well prepared and as well equipped as is possible, help them to be conscious of the fact that whilst they are an individual joining a team effort. That team is nationwide and the people supporting them in their efforts are people worldwide. They are the men and women on the front line of fighting climate change in the most immediate way. In order to maintain high spirits and maintain the belief that climate change can be take back his power over the force of Climate Change which is doing very well at pushing us into second place. We have to fight back and resist, we have to do that as a coordinated effort and every aspect of the challenge does require a super organism that we all together can be that pushes back against this phantom menace of our time. Apathy and selective thinking in any aspect of this effort in Australia is not an option. It has to be a single organism push against this monster that is upsetting the lives and the livelihoods currently of so many people on this planet.
So I go back again to the very most important part of this section, it is essential to be as detailed as possible in determining every single aspect of tools, techniques, clothing and equipment. Even the slightest benefit or improvement for one person, can become an improvement for 10,000 people. If there is anything that saves a person having to make a single wasted action in one day, then that is 10,000 saved wasted actions in one day collectively. That is 70,000 prevented wasted actions in a week, That is 280,000 prevented actions in a month. That is enough to save a village, town or city.. So therefore, with the stakes being so high on the exact technique, the exact martial art required to best fight this fire. The exact best way forward is not in this document, this is only the structure, It is the thinking of the fire fighters themselves, the little insight that could go through one of their minds, ie would it not be better if I did this in this way and that is a thought that today could be easily lost. The fire fighters themselves, and their friends and families can and should all be thinking in this way too. Are there any thoughts, insights or ideas that can be of use. When it comes to honing and developing the very best ways to deal with this situation then it has got to be said, there are few bad ideas worth discussing, being able to consider ways to improve any aspect of this effort are essential as a process. Yet, here I have covered much of the plan I have conceived, however due to time limitations and the urgency of this there is considerably more depth I could go into. To be so up against what must feel like a relentless force that cannot seemingly be mastered and brought into submission does require that Australians become the fire fighting kung fu asters they can be. It is worth noting that every Martial art had to be developed, considered, learned, every technique meditated on. For Australians to become the masters to the fires they can become it’s good to know that this is an ongoing process and no person is a novice in this, they are all listened to innovators in helping the process evolve and therefore should feel able to discus all and every aspect of what they are experiencing, how they are feeling and how better results can be obtained. There has got to be a social element to this, a type of collective therapy and type of collective effort to really ensure spirits are kept up. These men and women have become a community and it is really important that that community is not simply there for work, it is there for support of each other. It is important that the processing of these deeply traumatic experience on the psyche of individuals, communities and the country is dealt with in a very respectful and very mutually supporting way. So therefore the community centre aspect of this is vital in helping people rebuild their lives and helping to bring together a more cooperative country so that people are there for each other today as they were more so in the past.
We found at the Centre For Natural Design that tools that were sprayed in fluorescent colours could be more easily found and therefore,
There is a tool that we used very frequently in Spain. It’s called in Spanish “Azadonar” is English it is called a “Hoe” however there are various types of hoe, so it is worth looking up Azadonar. There is another similar tool called a “dozer with hoe avalanche shovel” and “serrated grubbing hoe”. These tools should be considered to be used, plus wider versions and serrated versions. These should then be promoted nationally. The reason is that the economy of motion of these tools and the results obtained would be very significantly better than the use of a normal standard shovel . some of these tools or similar are already being used from what I understand by fire fighters, however more access and knowledge of these tools for the public would be an advantage. Essentially in essence, strategy should be developed and promoted to the public and possibly include training.
These tools can either be pushed or pulled and therefore to move soil, turn over and smother burning coals requires much less movement, effort, lifting than a shovel and almost certainly would significantly improve results. The could be adapted to being sharpened to reduce resistance when digging into the ground and some could be added to having an axe on the side so they can double us to chop if required.
Immediate considerations to be included in public training
Fire fighting skills, tools, methods and safety.
Fans with water bottles attached.
Wet towel and blanket air conditioning.
Bath fridge.
Bath, sink water container preparation plan.
Tool access plan for evacuated houses. Standard plan for the country. IE, In garage outhouse, key to which is left under a door mat, for example.
More relevant findings from Natural Design and Innovation.
If an ecological project is being done the comparison to the human body being used for a task and the capacity of machines becomes very evident. An enclosed space of 5 metres by 5 metres that was four metres deep required a JCB thirty minutes to collect and dump soil to fill it. The same space years later was emptied by hand and required the equivalent of two men working for four days. This is used as an example to highlight how inefficient, slow, cumbersome, time consuming and energy exerting it would be for fire fighters to be working manually. Whilst in some cases this is of course essential and major progress is made by teams of volunteers. The example above comparing machine labour to manual human labour shows that the machine is approximately 48 times more faster, efficient and productive than a man doing the same task. So therefore, making an approximate estimate if there are 10,000 volunteers working then if the same comparable example was extrapolated onto them then they could theoretically achieve something close to the equivalent of 480,000 volunteers if the equation between man and machine in comparable work holds up. However, in order to provide 10,000 volunteers with a machine that is able to achieve 48 times more in terms of productivity than they can would require firstly a machine that is capable of achieving that, secondly a machine that is as safe to operate at least in those conditions as they would be if they were working manually. Thirdly, the cost of the machines would have to be low cost to use. In fact, it would be better if many of the vehicles could be obtained for zero cost.
Current Fire Fighting Method.
1. Planes and helicopters.
2. Professional Fire Fighters using fire engines
3. Volunteer fire fighter using manual tools.
Integrated Fire fighting Method.
1. Planes and helicopters.
2. Professional Fire Fighter using fire engines
1. Employed Ground robot vehicles.
2. Volunteer fire fighters with improved anual tools
3. Householders with resource plan
4. Community support networks feeding in insights and improvement strategies.
5. Links between other countries for assistance and improved tool production.
Before taking this any further and providing the answers to this, introducing Fire Fighting Robots.
Fire Fighting Robots.
“ A fire-fighting robot that can sweep away obstacles and clear smoke from burning buildings is the latest weapon being used to fight fires in Australia's New South Wales (NSW) state.
NSW Emergency Services Minister David Elliot and Fire and Rescue Commissioner Greg Mullins unveiled the country's first remote-controlled firefighting robot, the Turbine Aided Firefighting machine (TAF 20) on Thursday, ABC reported.
The TAF 20 has bulldozer blades capable of moving cars out of the way and a high-powered fan to blow away smoke.
It can also spray water mist or foam from 60 metres and blast water for 90 metres.
The robot will be based at Alexandria in inner Sydney and can be quickly deployed by road or air to where it is needed, Commissioner Mullins said.
"It can be remotely operated up to 500 metres away and sent into situations where it is too dangerous for firefighters, which is a huge advantage as the safety of firefighters is my highest priority," he said.
The robot costs 310,000 Australian dollars (about $226,248 and was made and imported from Germany.
There is already one in use in Germany and one in Mexico.
It was put to the test last week at a Botany factory fire in Sydney, where Elliot said it proved its effectiveness.”
So one answer if this thinking is used and the 10,000 volunteers were to be provided with this type of fire fighting equipment would be looking at a cost of $22,624,800,000. That is clearly prohibitively expensive, however in addition to that this machine is going to require lot of specialist training firstly and then secondly there is the question of would it be sensible to provide this type of equipment to volunteers rather than qualified firefighters. The professional fire fighters are all working to full capacity with what they do.
So whilst there is clearly some reason to consider this technology as one tactic within a full “Integrated Strategy” what’s really required is a machine that most volunteers could easily use, that is safe, much less cost and that has applications so that the machines can be used for other purposes when not fire fighting. My “Integrated Strategy” creates a vast team that are not as trained and skilled as professional fire fighters. Yet, they have equipment that is far more effective that that being used by volunteers currently. So this team use vehicles that are very easy to operate for any car driver, the specialist equipment they use, they can be taught to use in one single day. The tactics and methodology in one other single day. The machines
Re-visiting the Centre for Natural Design research work for more insights on the theory of why this works..
Centre For Natural Design findings that can be extrapolated onto this to produce a much better answer.
At the centre for natural design we had issues with our solar system on various occasions. To get good information in the early days of using solar was not always very easy and very easy to get conflicting information. What our issue was that our fuse on our solar system kept blowing. It would blow repeatedly. We asked the advice of both an English Solar Engineer and a German solar engineer. Both were very skilled and knowledgeable. The difference in the answers was interesting. The German solar engineer provided an answer that would have been very long lasting, that was technically correct, however it was putting in fuses that would have been the same in scale for a block of flats. When this was juxtaposed with the answer from the English solar engineer however, the answer he gave was simpler and lower cost. Both had provided good answers, technically the answer from the German engineer was the best, however the answer from the English engineer was lower cost and gave us more than enough leeway to get by. So in the end we did go with the answer from the English engineer and it was enough.
So using that example to extrapolate onto this fire Robot answer. We have the perfect answer in the way of the German invention here. Technically it is going to be a brilliant fight fighting all singing and dancing robot. However, the centre for natural design and innovation was to always consider. Is there a way to achieve the same, similar or better result, yet have a machine that most volunteers can operate very easily and much more low cost. Well the answer to that is that is we have to look at the skills and tasks required and then see if there is a way of achieving a similar result in a different way. In terms of construction there are many good, perfect or acceptable ways to do things. In terms of construction there can be a tendency when only partly skilled people are designing and building a project to “Over Engineer” So in other words due to the fear of failure factor build using far more materials and stronger materials than can otherwise be used. So the question is in addition to their being some of the all singing and dancing German Robots, is there some very much “under engineered” equivalents either on the market or that can be used and adapted that require minimal training and skills to use and are safe? Yes, I believe there are. Whilst putting the innovations I have innovated next to the robot. I believe the robot would be the easier option on the basis of style, how it looks, performs and how chic and clever it is. In comparison to that my innovations will look much less predictably “cool”. However, when it comes to construction, building, controlled demolition and combating fires who cares what the equipment looks like, it’s all about the equipment doing the job. And if i was going to try and compare the equipment I have innovated to the robot, which I have not actually seen, my question would be so the robot can carry out so many tasks, can it carry them all out at the same time from various locations all at once? My innovations can and in addition to that my innovations will be able to do many other tasks all at different heights and distances at the same time. There is additional flexibility and having various controllers of the equipment enables team work dynamics to occur, which is very important in this. Then added to that I would say that my innovations can do all of that for considerably less cost that the robot. I would not say half the price, but I would consider not too much more than half the price. So having said that, I clearly see that this German invention is very good and there are many unique selling points to it firstly. Secondly the use of that in conjunction with my strategy should not be ruled out as there could be even more benefits and perhaps there is the chance of an ice-cream and cornet situation. In other words the two are better together than they are separately. However, rather than introduce something else now. It is better initially to not seek to combine these initially.
What are the tasks required in fire fighting?
1. Spraying water.
2. Spraying foam.
3. Hoeing the ground to put dirt over the fire in order to starve oxygen.
4. Cutting trees and foliage cover to reduce height.
5. Blowing the smoke away from the firefighters.
6. Separating flammable material such as trees, n order to reduce fuel.
7. Push and pull soil on the fire to reduce oxygen.
8. Separating fire from oxygen.
Vehicle types suitable and unsuitable for fire fighting.
Diesel and Petrol vehicles are evidently unsafe to be anywhere close to a fire. However, electric vehicles would be much safer.
In terms of electric vehicles there are now many types. We could say that the range goes from electric scooters and skate boards to Tesla and Honda hybrid cars. Somewhere close to the middle of the range of electric vehicles available are what could be referred to as electric utility vehicles. These too take many forms ranging from the electric vehicles that are used at tourist attractions which carry fifteen or so people, golf buggies and pick up trucks. The cost to purchase one of these is AUS $15,000. I have considered ways that these could be adapted so that they achieve all the above tasks. The adapted versions would cost i estimate AUS $20,000-35,000 each in total once improved. So what I envisage is that in each fire fighting location a flatbed lorry would bring in a whole fleet of these adapted electric vehicles. On site they would have their new fittings attached and then they can be used to fight the fires. Each vehicle has a charge range of 130kms. So they would be able to work very long hours as they would only be covering very short distances in order to work. I believe that it would be feasible that these vehicles could be used 24 hours a day. The vehicles would work together in clusters so that two vehicles for example would have the sole responsibility of pushing back smoke. Two vehicles would spray water or foam, two vehicles would be pulling out fuel, two vehicles would be chopping trees and reducing height. The vehicle would be adapted so that they are able to work at a distance from the actual fires, It’ my consideration that they could be able to work thirty metres from the fire. Therefore, there would be some applications where they would not be suitable, where there are very high trees, however, if there was a fire approaching and there was an initial team sent in to reduce the height of the fire by bringing down the high trees first, then their application would be very usable in many situations. It is my guess that using clusters of these adapted vehicles together, all assigned for different tasks when used together can potentially be more effective than the German robot. This is due to the fact that many tasks can be accomplished simultaneously. Smoke is being held back, trees are felled, chopped up in large pieces, lifted and pulled away from the main fire and then extinguished away from the fire by ground crews working simultaneously on the ground. To provide an analogy, tanks and ground troops together are more effective than either tanks or ground troops alone. Essentially this strategy if related to conflict situations there is air-force, infantry and cavalry/artillery. Currently with fire extinguishing there is an air-force and infantry. The ‘Integrated Strategy” creates who would be the equivalent of a cavalry/artillery. However, this analogy is not the best as the only force and pressure used is by pulling, pushing, lifting, cutting, dropping, blowing with wind.
Bio-mimicry of ant clustering dynamics.
Ants are one of the most successful species on the planet, and have inhabited Earth for approximately 120 million years. They inhabit almost every type of landmass on Earth.
“ Their success as a species has been attributed to their social organization and their ability to modify habitats, tap resources, and defend themselves. Their long co-evolution with other species has led to mimetic, commensal, parasitic, and mutuality relationships.[12]
Ant societies have divisions of labour, communication between individuals, and an ability to solve complex problems. These parallels with human societies have long been an inspiration and subject of study. Larger colonies consist of wingless females, as well as soldiers and other specialized groups. The colonies are described as super-organisms because the ants operate as a unified entity, collectively working together to support the colony.”
So the parallel between how ants interact where there are various forms of ant and they all have specific tasks, yet collectively they produce an efficient outcome by complimenting other ants skills is secondary confirmation of the viability of this strategy. Ants have been here since before the dinosaurs, they are one of the most successful species on the planet. They are tiny yet are mighty in many ways. We are tiny in comparison to these fires, we can learn from bio-mimicry and from ants. We too need to punch so much more above our weight against these fires. Our use of machines, in new ways can help us do this.
Electric Vehicles adapted into- EV Corp.
So what exactly is this?
A group of vehicles lightweight, electric, nimble, able to act singularly or as a cluster, in unison combined with new flying drone technology. Some vehicles are fitted with extendable arms that stretch out as much as fifteen metres. These are like masts with tools that can be used at a distance to disrupt the fire through controlling, separating and pulling out fuel to be extinguished by ground crews. Fire fighting becomes more like surgery with a whole range of every much over sized, though low cost electric vehicles. The use of these in many cases would make fire fighting safer as fire crews can work at more of a distance. In other instances where this is not the optimal method then water, powder and foam dropping can be focused. In essence this method identifies specific trees and then uses a wide range of technologies to control the fire with increased precision. This entire thesis is orientated with the safety of the people involved first and foremost. The application of this whole new method would begin with low burning fires first to test it’s capacity and and skills and know how improves the system can then move onto what are more technically difficult to put out fires. What has to be considered is that at present people are having to work in close proximity to the fires this method provides new options to being able to work more at a distance and equally having methods to quickly evacuate when required..
What makes these fires so prolific, unpredictable and dangerous to work at in close range?
1. Unpredictable wind
2. Speed
3. Height
4. Heat
5. Scale
6. Diversity of topography.
What makes the fires so challenging to fight is that currently the same strategy is being used for all types of fire that have some of those aspects, yet not all. My “integrated Strategy” works by using completely different tactics for each type of characteristic.
So the concept is to use different adapted vehicles for different situations. To classify Terrain into three categories.
1. High Terrain (mountains)
2. Medium Terrain (hills)
3. Low Terrain (flat)
Flat land using this strategy is the easiest.
Medium is the second easiest.
Mountainous, uses different tactics completely. The most mountainous and inaccessible terrain my method would be much more limited on, however due to the fat that the first two terrains which will make up most of the fires my system be effective with, that enables the existing air drop water to be concentrated more on the high terrain. Therefore, there is an overall benefit and improvement to all types of terrain.
What two other factors become the most defining factor of coping with fires?
1. Wind
2. Height
The four elements. Some theory which provides an overview of why the thinking with this is so new and different to methodologies currently applied in extinguishing fires.
fire, earth, water and air. Looking at the elements, the structure of current and then the difference with using an “integrated Strategy” to do the same work, though more effecively.
Today all fire fighting ------- Fire and wind against Water and Earth
“Integrated plan harnesses...........Fire and wind against Water, Air, Fire and Earth.
In a major fire situation there is the fire element being perpetuated by the air element. We use the water element and to some extent Earth element to fight the fire. That is the same in every fire fighting scenario. Where my method is different we use Earth, Water, Air and Fire to fight the fire. In other words as you will see later we use the fire itself to help us extinguish the fire and additionally use the air and earth elements next and then the water element last. This strategy potentially completely changes tactics used in fighting some fires. What is sometimes included is a fifth element, that being metal. We use that too. So in other words today the problem is fire and wind against water and Earth. With my strategy it is fire against Earth, fire, water, air and metal. Whilst this sounds abstract now, later on it becomes clearer. However, that is an overview. Going now into specific tactics.
Low and Medium Terrain.
Low is flat or quite flat land.
Medium is hilly.
1. Extinguishing a fire on medium or low terrain is what I focus on first. Whilst the usual method to seek to control a fire is drop or spray water. My methodology is to firstly control the wind. In fires without trees being the main problem it is wind that is the problem. The wind direction controls the speed and the heat of the fire. If you control the wind you make firefighting much safer. So therefore, the plan is to use a cluster of vehicles with giant fans on, this is to counteract the wind blowing the fire onto new fuel and blows the fire onto itself. So therefore the fire if on low level will be getting blown onto itself it will be less able to find new unburned fuel and therefore with fns alone, the fire will start to lack fuel and will therefore only be able to use up the fuel it has available to it, which in the case of grass lands will burn up very quickly. The only reason a grass fire is able to spread is due to the fact the fire an keep finding new fuel. Prevent the fire from getting new fuel and that is the first Use giant fans to counteract the speed of the fire. Advancing slowly in the direction of the fire line from a distance. (Therefore, its possible to gauge our wind capacity before fully engaging. Providing the means to retreat if necessary. Gauge whether wind capacity is enough to counteract any wind pushing the fire forwards.
2. Advance slowly pushing the fire back so that the fire burns out slowly and it has no new fuel to move onto.
3. The advance with water in-between the fan cars. Use the water to create cool sections. Ie, not flooding the whole area, but flooding sections to extend water use. This takes the heat out of the fire.
4. Advance with Giant roller extended vehicles that roll the fire using both round, rectangular and multi-plane rollers.
5. Before engaging with the fire banks of soil are created these are in blocks, so vehicles can pass between them.
6. These banks after the fire has been pushed back upon itself by the wind, after it has burned down by being pushed back and then reduced, after the water has disrupted areas to reduce heat and as the rollers have rolled some of the land. The soil is pushed onto the burnt out fire together with soil, sand, gravel and any other material that can be immediately excavated. This loose soil is pushed onto the fire and then used and hoed by giant hoes. It is also used to create a better access track as the fire is pushed back onto, in case of the need for fast evacuation. It is also used a secondary method the smother the fire with soil. It is also an additional guard against the fire pushing back again as a substantial amount of the burnt out fuel will still have some fuel material, so the gravel dilutes access the fire can have if it advanced back again. Therefore, the areas as they are extinguished and the team advances each area becomes safer. So there are more and more defenses added as the once burned land is put out. In addition to this, this additional soil can help on the medium topography mach access easier. The soil aspect is only necessary on some parts of the grass fire and the reason for this is due to the adapted wheels of the vehicles, which are an intrinsic part of the strategy.
Medium to high terrain
The method for some medium to high terrain and forested terrain would be very different. In forested terrain the objective is to get the fire as low as possible. This is achieved with rod and extended saw, hover saw and extendable wood extractors. There are completely different tactics to this. However, in principle the bjective again is to use wind to counteract the wind of the fire and due to their being more fuel to begin with, reversing these fires would be very strategisc, however the objective is to lower the height of the fire and reducing the fuel in the fire through using the extended equipment. When the fire is lower then it is more manageable and much less dangerous. The teams with this equipment use this as preventative and producing buffer zones without fuel is an essential part of this as too is the use of drone cameras and specially equipped flying machines. These can be adapted too from existing technologies. Advancing into the extinguished fire is also more challenging and yet not impossible due to the wheels of the vehicles. There are going to be many scenarios to begin with especially with the high terrain areas where this method is not usable. However, in some cases, where there is good access then it will produce some improvements. On the medium terrain the benefits could be significant and on the low terrain very significant indeed. However, overall the premise of having a whole new strategy that accompanies the existing methods of dropping water and then creates on the ground. Being able to add this entirely new method to the existing methods used creates a completely different dynamic. It means that as there is currently;
1. Water drop method from the sky. 2. Fire crews with fire engines. 3 Volunteers.
This strategy enables.
1. Water from the air to be more concentrated, therefore more effective..
2. Volunteers to be equipped with equipment and improved natural design knowledge and able to work in a safer way.
3. A new fire force to be created that’s using specially designed vehicles that are adapted specifically for this task from off the shelf products. This crew can potentially function day or night and do not necessarily require supplied of water. The only resource they are limited by is battery charging, batteries can be replaced. Therefore, potentially these fire vehicle crews can be more self-sufficient resource wise in the field than either of the existing proffesional fire crews as they are more dependent upon consistent water supplies than this new strategy requires.
4. Enables householders to have improved preparation plans, evacuation plans and increases resources for fire crews with on site information schedules, ie where is water and any resources they may benefit from.
Medium and high terrain method in more depth.
However, in this case rather tha the fire all being fought where the fire actually is. The flammable material is actually pulled away from the other flammable material and extinguished. It would also be possible once extinguished to remove the extinguished wood away from the site completely. Whilst it may only be a proportion of the wood that is pulled out, this reduces the heat of the fire significantly and also would help provide breaks in the consistency of fuel supply.. I have sectioned the types of fires that are being fought in Austrailia.
1. Difficult to penetrate land such as The Blue Mountains, hilly with limited access and yet dense forest cover.
2. Flatter land which is forested and has good access.
3. Non-tree based land where there is mostly shrub cale foliage.
4. Grassland foliage.
Its my consideration that currently all the resources being used are being split between all of these different terrains. Whilst 1 is more suited to planes and helicopters dropping water. The other three categories can use more fire engine or ground volunteer methods. However, with the introduction of the innovations I propose 2, 3 and 4 would certainly be suitable for the use of this equipment and new method. 1 would be perhaps not suitable terrain, however there is an overall improvement potentially be far sue to the fact that if my methods were more effective or much more effective for 2,3,4/ Then the air resources could be more concentrated on terrain 1. Therefore there is a substantial overall benefit in being able to fight all fires more effectively. What’s also a very important consideration is human exhaustion. There really isn’t a more physically demanding and stressful type of work than fire fighting. However, with my method of having electric vehicle clusters working alongside people on the ground then roles can be switched so that people do the less strenuous machine operated fire fighting in addition to the more strenuous ground work. Therefore, with firefighters able to take more rests they will be more rested, more alert and safer.
Whilst these vehicles are relatively speaking slow moving with a maximum speed of only 20mph. What has to be considered is that these would be used in conjunction with a flatbed lorry. The flatbed lorry could be parked a couple of kilometers away from where the cluster is working, safely away from the fire and therefore if there is the need to evacuate there could be a visual and radio signal fitted to eah vehicle and they could retreat back to the flatbed lorry. In terms of a emergency, if the operators needed to evacuate immediately then the cost of a fleet of these vehicles being substantially much less than any other fire fighting system provides the means to be able to do so. So the one consideration is how is it feasible for these vehicles to be able to be effectively purchased and to re-coup back the costs? These vehicles would all do their fire fighting work using component parts that can be very quickly assembled on site or removed. Therefore, they when not in use for fire control they would be able to be used as electric transport vehicles, in some cities in Australia or in tourist destinations.. Soo in other words these vehicles are actually a new ecological transport service that can be used in Australia both to reduce fossil fuel transport on roads, be part of both a commuter and/or tourism tranport option, be used in conjunction to park and ride schemes and in many other ways. So therefore, this new fire fighting service actually helps solve the fire issue, it also improves green transport options throughout Australia, it enables Australia to develop the most advanced green public transport facilities in the world. These vehicles can also be used to assist in tree planting programs to replace the trees lost in these fires in areas that are away from human habitation. Therefore, what provides a first immediate answer also helps contribute towards improved mitigation targets in Australia.
In addition, these vehicles can provide thousands of people with employment when they are not in use in the control of fire.
These vehicles when adapted will not look conventional, however this is due to the fact that they have to be adapted in a way that enables the operators to maintain a safe and viable working distance from the fires.
The answer to Australia’s fires is not an easy one for the simple reason that the problem not only requires an immediate answer that can only be made up of many components. These are government, business, NGO, public, professional and volunteer orientated. I feel strongly that Australia can turn this situation around, yet it really has got to look at Mitigation, Innovation and adaptation all as priorities. If the government is not prepared to do it’s bit with regulations helping to calm and stop runaway climate change then why should people risk their lives on the front line fire fighting. It has got to be a society wide effort. If people are on the front line fighting the fires there are ways that people that are not able to fight the fires can support them. This becomes very clear when the full extent of my work is understood and applied with “Integrated Strategies” An effort that goes top to bottom all people working together on the same page of wanting to go back to a time where Australia was freed and not hampered by such a situation. It is viable through my strategies to covert almost the entire population into a truly diverse and vast team in solving this entire fire issue.
I have written this document from the perspective of wanting to help Australia, I do hope that Australia be committed itself in making a real effort to adapt businesses in alignment with helping solve this issue. Trying to separate these fires from the wider climatic issue is just not being honest about the situation. This plan is not a plan for now that can help with the worst of the issue and then it’s business as usual. The reason is that no matter how bad the fires seem this time, next time with the regeneration of new foliage and then the drying of that the situation, the cycle could and will expand and get worse over years. Therefore, this should not be seen as a quick fix remedy but a long term development plan that helps align all aspects of Australia whether it be business, farming tourism more into alignment with the problems and the solutions. This situation should be seen as a wake-up that does unite the country into a path of sustainable development. This I believe not only makes sense on every level. It is in my view the only and best way to improve tourism, to make it more sustainable and a part of the answer for Australia. Australia should reject fossil fuels and the coal mining and properly work on renewable energy combined with vast new tree planting efforts away from houses and create the new green industries that it can. Turn this problem into a much, much larger solution.. There is not a quick fix to Australia’s fires. Like the land itself it is timeless and requires answers by all sectors of it’s society that can also become timeless.
Ecological Industries that can be started in Australia that provide more jobs than mining.
Mussel Production-
Seaweed Production
New green Transport from adapted fire fighting vehicles.
Production of tools from upcycled plastic,
Innovation of fire fighting equipment.
The creation of ecoplaza centres which provide support for all communities dealing with this and improved logistical centres for the future of dealing with all weather based issues.
What else?
This is a world problem. There are people in many parts of the world that woul be prepared to travel to Australia and help in any way they can. There should be an International program established that enables people to travel into Australia, with a very fast Visa application scheme and then incentives. It is essential to keep morale up of the people on the front line This is essential and nothing pleased people more on any front line to know reinforcements are on the way.
Australia is no longer the low cost country to travle it once was and so therefore, there should be incentives to bring in foreign help whether it is professional fire fighters or whether it is volunteer fire fighters every bit of mussel to overcome the fire is essential.
Morale is everything, it is as important as the equipment and technique. This is the essential part I have left until last. Yet really this should be first and throughout this document. .
How can this be instigated in the most expedient way, what’s required?
A series of warehouse complex’s for adapting these electric vehicles in the most affected areas or in areas close to where they are going to be required the most. These need to have indoor engineering space and outside space, team of engineers and mechanics, equipped with tools and welding teams.
How much money is required for this?
This depends on how extensive this program was going to be rolled out.
What’s the best scenario in terms of time if full funds are made available?
I believe it is feasible to have this all up and running, subject to supplies in the first location within a few weeks if the resources and trained man power are ready.
Is a significant improvement feasible with this?
There are many variables, some aspects of this have been very well tested, many have not. However, this all makes sense. There are a great many aspects to this that I do have experience in although never exactly to this specific task. The only way to know how effective this is, is to try it. However, in principle with the testing of the robot from Germany being successful and the component parts to this substantially lower cost. The most basic premise of this document is that man and machine can achieve more than man alone or people with limited resources or times to be able to work such as with existing methods. So therefore, I’m optimistic that a significant improvement is viable. This however, is not tried and tested. It’s not proven in the field. Yet, all of this makes sense and if even 20% of this works. In times of no other choice and such a situation, I can with this work offer only the best insights I can provide and hope that there is the most expedient uptake of this. Where we succeed the most we major on, where we do ok we enhance and where we fail, we learn, improve and reapply.
One of the greatest advantage of this is that to find out how effective this is does not require major investment and as the vehicles can be used for other purposes such as utility vehicles or for tourism if on the slightest off chance none of this worked. Then this provides a risk free investment. However, the fact that this is dual purpose fire fighting and the secondary option of tourism vehicles hopefully enables this to receive immediate funding and is administratively simple to instigate. So I would say with all aspects considered it is possible to have 35% improvement by combining my findings and data to existing efforts. It could be more. In terms of the grass fires and the low level fires,
Application of this Australia wide.
How to take on anf fight the whole fire issue in the country, from where it is today.
Canberra. The fires close to the Parliament is priority.
So provided Canberra has the EV supplies I would suggest begin there. What I would say though is that this strategy is first and foremost for fighting fires outside of cities, before the fire get there. However, there could be some improvement using this, although the urban environment does present a whole range of other issues, the strategy of getting the fire as close to the ground and smothering the fire would provide through the “Integrated Method” a few advantages over current approaches. However, the method I present is 90% orientated around more rural fires. However, once this is in practice a more substantial city “Integrated Strategy” could be produced.
EV Innovations
There are thirteen of these. All can be operated by moderately skilled operators provided they are good at communicating, driving and operating power tools.
Other innovations.
There are two of these, these so require specialist skills one of these can be produced from easy to obtain materials. The other is a specialist machine, the like of which does not presently exist. This would be operated primarily away from the cluster. There if an element of experimentation required with this. The operator would require specialist skills.
Building the cluster.
Seven of the innovations can be made in a day and then tested. These alone could form the basis of a partial cluster.
The other innovations would take slightly more time, however it is considered within one week they could all be complete. Of the other innovations one could be very quickly put into service and would require only minimal testing The last one is more technically challenging however provided all the theory matches up with specialists applying the theory could be up and running within one week.
So therefore, during the course of three weeks I believe it is possible to have a very clear idea of this entire program.
If they are successful they can be manufactured and then instigated very rapidly. In future even the first phase of these basic models in combination with controlled burning plans would help prevent fire from getting into an Australian city form the outback. . Therefore from this first phase alone, there can be a substantial improvement.
The other machines would take slightly longer to manufacture, however with unlimited labour and resources. I believe it is feasible to have all models constructed and tested in prototype form within two weeks.
Phase 2
All or most of the innovation have proven to work, do what they were designed to do. They have been tested singularly and together as a cluster. The operators of the machines know and understand how to operate their machine alone and when in a cluster. From the results obtained these are seen as an integral part of Australia’s new fire extinguishing assets. Any doubters have been proven wrong. The machines are ready for action.
Once that is accomplished then the vehicles are put into manufacture. The teams are trained in how to use, understand and operate the equipment. They become trained and practice and are relocated to all parts of Australia with their machines.
Phase 3.
The full instigation would happen where this method is applied to the easiest to apply places first and this is the training ground. Then after would go to the hilly, more forested area’s once a team is confident that everyone knows firstly how to use the equipment and secondly hw to work as a part of the cluster. A this stage planning for how to tackle the fires changes. The first priority is
The EV Corp. The next priority is the air support in the context of this. The third priority are the fire engines and volunteers. Whilst the clusters focus primarily on the fattest and therefore easiest fires first. This is where the skills are learned. The fire engines and the planes focus on the more topographically challenging areas and the areas where this new method still requires skills honed before being applied.
Phase 4
This method would have proved itself beyond any doubt. There will have been very significant and noticeable progress made on fires 1. The cluster teams woul dbe proficient in working as a cluster. The teams would have experienced some challenging environments. The innovation of all the technologies would be complete and they would have all been tested.
This would be the time to engage with 1 and 2 topography. The more challenging hilly and forested landscapes would have become a clear progression. The skills of the teams in using the equipment would be well established. The standard fire fighting practices of fire engines and planes would be now able to focus primarily on the topographically more challenging to reach environments.
Phase 5
The expansion of this technology across all of Australia would be briging under control all of the fires and putting them out.
Phase 6
The fires are out and the equipment is used for preparing cities for the next year in terms of preparing land. The wider “Integrated Strategies’ are instigated.
Phase 7
Australia has the fires put out and is ready and prepared for the next year. The vehicles can be adapted back into their original form and used for tourism. There is now a new template established on how to deal with major fires for the world.
Consultants overview of instigating this Strategy
This strategy is certainly best implemented with myself included directly in advising on all aspects of this. There are many innovations in this that I have thought about and just handing my document here to some expert or experts to adapt and change will in my view cause a very much less effective result. The Australian fires are huge and the answer them has to be even bigger. This document explains how that’s viable.
The world is like a jigsaw puzzle of countries that have got formed in that way over the course of centuries. Today it is also a jigsaw puzzle of solutions to the worlds problems. Whilst the problmes do not start and stop at a border, neither do the potentially solutions. If this strategy is effective for Australia then it is effective for Spain, USA, Russia, Canada, Portugal, Sweden, England, Indonesia and all the other countries in the world suffering from fires. Therefore, as this is new, as this all makes perfect sense and as all these countries today and in future will face similar issues to Australia it is in the interests of every country to get these fires out. If you stand by and do nothing today, then who will be there for you tomorrow. If we help Australia now, we are potentially providing solutions for everywhere.
The Australian crisis is the catastrophe of the century. The greatest challenge to any civilization since the end of the last other great civilizations. Australia, it’s change or there will be change.
“How do we sleep whilst the world is turning? How do we sleep when our beds are burning? The time has come to say fairs fair, to pay the rent and to pay our share.” Midnight Oil.