What’s your business/company? We build Datsuns and we definitely have some custom parts that would be sick to have in carbon

Good day Rich, we don't have a leasing program, but we do work with a financing company that has been an awesome option for a lot of our commercial applicator clients.

The benefits to the farmer are definitely where it excels. If you’re totally invested in the system, you’ll use the DJI agras software with one or more sprayer and one imaging drone. The way it works is it creates a multi spectral map (NVDI) of the field, which measures the light reflecting off the plants to guage plant health. This then syncs to the sprayer drone, which autonomously sprays in the most ideal pattern, whether that be fertilizer, pesticide, anything. The drones thrust creates a better product dispersion and is very precise, so it uses a lot less product. The variable cost is much cheaper but the fixed price is definitely an investment - though depending on what your time is worth, it saves a ton of that, since you just press a button and it goes.

You can get bugs on them if you want to instead

No shit, the point is to use less energy over time, yes you have to make the thing but you do either way, now does that thing need to burn a separate fuel or can it just draw from the already running/efficient electric grid.

"AlReAdY rUnNiNg" ...on coal and fossil fuels.

​@@Bushdid7elevenAn electric grid that burns coal

@Bushdid7eleven aside from the fossil fuel power grid, there's the high use of rare earth's in those drones, the motors and batteries particularly. Mind you, I don't disagree that you gotta break some eggs to make the omelet. I'm just saying don't go out trying to sound all high and mighty about negative carbon when you are the customer of some of the highest carbon producers on the planet

​@@Bushdid7eleven Your unaware that the power grid even in CA is 90% from fossil fuel production.

Not to mention the hours on the drone to mage the battery carbon nuetral, should be around 200,000 hours givenor take.

Part of your ocmment is true, but is a bit of a misrepresentation here. Kinda like you learned about carbon credits on a tiktok and didnt follow up to get an actual understanding of how they work.

@@DroneConflict I learned this from the corporation I work for. This is how they do it. Sure I don't understand the whole process. But you still can buy carbon credits.

@@kaydenbrunssen4250 gotcha. Well you are correct in that, but I guess the part that got left out is that usually these credits are limited and calculated using environmental models. Im not denying that likely these models are skewed to allow more pollution than they should, but usually the goal is to calculate so that the pollution created is able to be managed/cleaned. Secondly, these credits are disbursed a few different ways. Some are bid (making it cheaper for competitors that are able to produce with less or no pollution) and others are granted to NGOs/agencies that take on the responsibility for the cleanup--essentially getting the companies that than buy those credits to pay for the cleanup. Credits is not a perfect program, but it is really just an economic tool to limit pollution and internalize the costs of pollution to the the pollution in the short term while better environmental methods are produced

Legal for a price.

But drones would also be cheaper than planes, so you could buy more drones for less than a plane, right?

You could also set up the drones to be automated. Modern GPS tracking could ensure complete, even coverage without excessive chemical use.

I don’t disagree, but some drones (especially ones used for this stuff or for large scale film making type stuff) are actually really large compared to a hobby grade one. I’m not saying they could carry 5 gallons (they might could) but it’s more than 8 ounces

Just shy of 8 gallons on a system that can take off and land with no runway, and is significantly cheaper than a manned aircraft in terms of initial cost, maintenance, and pilot costs. Also significantly safer in terms of flying at low altitude, and depending on the future could be upscaled to carry even more chemicals. Crop dusting manned aircraft certainly have a place in covering large swaths of land quickly, but these agricultural drones are popping up because they offer significant opportunities to farmers.

Smh, I can buy a used crop dusting cessna for half the price of a new drone. Deone is 35,000 Drone carries 20 lbs per flight and can only resist 20mph winds. Can cover about 30 acres a day, vs 60 acres an hour for a cessna... so 16 drones at 32,000 each 550,000 for the drones to do the same work as a 16,000 plane... smfh, idiots

Part 107 allows drones up to 55 lbs, but you need the 107 to get the waiver.

10 minutes recharge time, with 3 battery’s you can run all day

Until you realize how much a drone can get done in 6 minutes. 30 mins of drone lidar saves my guys 5 days in the field so I guess it’s only impractical for people with a few 100’000 acres laying around

working a reclamation project in northern canadian swamp, this was the only way to seed the ground without sinking out of sight

XAG doesn’t have a manual flight mode lol he calling them out