Company: Preventing Catastrophic Bushfires: ANU Institute for Climate, Energy and Disaster Solution and the ANU Bushfire Research Centre of Excellence

Project URL: https://nickjordan16.wixsite.com/preventing-catastr-1

• Project Repository: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1YTNQOJJoknSHP1oNs7CrC4AmwwWmhHDT?usp=sharing
• Aim of the project - to prevent catastrophic bushfires through rapid extinguishing of bushfire ignitions in remote bushland in partnership with the ANU Institute for Climate, Energy and Disaster Solution and the ANU Bushfire Research Centre of Excellence
• Background: The 2019-2020 bushfires have caused catastrophic damage resulting in A$10 billion cost and excessive GHG emissions. As climate change worsens, we can expect such events to happen more frequently and potentially even worse.
• Scope: The project scope is to conduct thorough research and explore possible retardants and fire extinguishing techniques and determine the most optimal theoretical extinguishing method. Once this extinguishing technique is identified, designs will be generated to implement this extinguishing technique, ensuring they are suitable for the conditions present in a small-scale bushfire. Prototypes of these designs will be assembled and will undergo testing in a simulated environment to evaluate their effectiveness.
• Results & Outcome: The results and outcomes of the project can be found the in the engineering repository for the project given in the link above. Feel free to peruse the engineering project from the scoping and background research to the prototyping and final output.