The Chinese who live in Xiangyang, Sichuan, Anshun and Hangzhou are gradually becoming accustomed to flamethrower drones flying over high tension lines. If these gadgets began their testing phase in 2010, today they are fully functional.
Work at Risk
It is the public maintenance department that is behind this initiative to ensure the safety of its teams. He prefers to use flame-throwing drones to burn waste on electrical wires. These are usually lightweight plastic materials and sometimes ... kites.
The operation lasts nearly 15 minutes and the flames reach the temperature of 400 ° C. This figure seems high, but for Zhang Han, a member of the maintenance team, the process is safe because the wires are made of aluminum-coated steel.
The drones thus spare a tedious and dangerous work to the personnel who will have only to command the fire-eaters at a distance. In any case, the revolution of the drones seems already in progress. In the future, they could even deliver Amazon merchandise or carry passengers.
0 comments:
Post a Comment