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Flame Thrower Drone

Not a use that I would have imagined...

New technologies and creative people will always bring about innovative uses for those new technologies.

Thus, we have a Fire Spewing Drone that is being used in China to burn trash off of high voltage power lines. I'm sure some military person somewhere is thinking, "I could use this!"  Evidently the flames don't harm the power lines themselves. 

What other "unconventional" uses of a drone can you think of?

 

Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.
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