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I imagine a trillion of these floating along the coast of the western United States, little landing pads (and solar powered charging stations) for a trillion drones that can move the freshly desalinated water from the ocean to the nearest forest fire. You need a drone cloud 500 million strong to deliver 100 million gallons of fresh water to X location immediately? No problem. Need a drone cloud to water your 20,000 acre vineyard? Coming right up. Who needs clouds?



Water is very heavy though. For watering crops I think you would do better in terms of energy efficiency with land-based infrastructure. At the very least, if you're going with drones, you ideally want something more energy-efficient than quadcopters.


A trillion? Well I guess efficiency doesn't concern you...


It's wild ass guess, but imagine a drone fleet capable of delivering that quantity of water on demand.

We will see this in our lifetimes. Rain on demand.


I don't think we will. Except in the case of fighting fires in remote areas, if you want water in some area, you use pipes.

For fighting remote fires, we already have piloted vehicles and in some cases uncrewed vehicles delivering water in bursts ... so perhaps.




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