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- theRIAA, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5shark hunting anyone?
- jwerner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4As I understand it yes, there are benefits to underwater logging.
- Safer (being remote-controlled) so I assume less insurance and manpower needed
- Niche market (there are no other companies operating at the throughput Triton does, I believe)
- Increasingly more difficult and expensive to get permits to land trees (well, in British Columbia it seems that way)
- Eco-friendlier (the trees are already "lost," the ROV doesn't require new roads or potential damages to watersheds and eroded hillsides, and the ROV itself is more enviro-friendly (uses electricity and vegetable-oil-based hydraulics))
- There is an eco-buyer market for this wood (such as rich house owners who want nice wood floors and can boast of their eco-friendlier status). - tylerman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4After RTA this is really cool
people say "why didn't they log the trees before they put up the dam?" Prolly because that wasn't even a thought to the hydro company. Or the dam was built before this idea was in question? or the dam resevoir became larger than expected?........ who knows but this is better than cutting down forests. I'm sure the fish have plenty of coverage.
dam! - peritonlogon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Talk about a niche market, I mean, It's not like underwater trees really replace themselves, so the quantity of underwater trees must be pretty small.
- jwerner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Most of these forests were not cut down prior to flooding simply because there was already lots of forest to cut down elsewhere. And many of them were flooded 50-100 years ago. These days trees are a more valuable and precious commodity. There are even government subsidies to logging underwater trees as opposed to land trees.
And the quantity? As their website states, about 300 million trees worldwide. - intarweb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It was featured in a Discovery Channel show awhile ago, and depending on your location the show may air again in the future. http://www.exn.ca/ontv/episode.asp?episode=51709584&TZ=0
- datastorageguy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Jesus christ...it isn't a robot if you have to control it.
- solarpowered, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6By plannning ahead, wouldn't it be easier to cut the trees down BEFORE flooding the area? Not bulding roads and removing the trees after cutting, but letting them fall wherever they may, then let them float when the flooding starts?
I can see how long-flooded trees are preserved and have salvage value, but what's better than a *fresh-cut* tree?
I guess this is designed for the "Oops, we forgot to cut the trees before flooding" crowd. - flamingmb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I wanna see it in action.
- blatman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Actually it could be to harvest old the growth trees which can no longer be cut. There is a company in Wisconsin that harvests hundred year old sunken logs from lake Superior and sells the lumber for big buck$.
- pap3rw8, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6when I first glanced at the title of this story I misread it and thought it said:
""Robot" harvests trees underwear" - IncognitoCraven, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Cutting the trees beforehand may lead to scouring and erosion as the dam fills.
If the lake's already there, well no risk of that (and there's probably already silt).
Finally, many of the dams in quesiton were likely built back in the good ol' days
when everything was plentiful and cheap, and the need for water/to get the
project done trumped all.
***** CAPTCHA - violentvinyl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Direct Video:
http://www.exn.ca/video/?video=exn20040406-sawfish.asx - calabria, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Are there really benefits to underwater harvesting of submerged forests that offset the cost and time spent on this machine now and in the future?
- violentvinyl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Direct Video:
http://www.exn.ca/video/?video=exn20040406-sawfish.asx - buryme, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I haven't heard Jesus ever make that mistake...
- nattybohman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I agree. The term robot is thrown about an awful lot lately. It weakens the term to use it for dumb remotely controlled devices.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Sounds like a good idea, but doesn't seem like one to me.
At least not in my area,
all the lakes in Texas are man-made except for one or two,
so they all have these underwater forests in them for the most part
killing all the rees kills all the wildlife living in the lakes,
the best spots for fishing and for the fish to grow is in those forests
actually someone went out and cut down about 3000 trees last summer when the lake had receded (for no reason that we can see)
and the park rangers were outraged because it killed the fish life that had lived out there in the lake. - IncognitoCraven, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It sounds better than RC, and it's not exacly a waldo either.
- calabria, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2interesting, thanks.
- salsaman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1GREAT icon! It reminds us that there are big, healthy, green trees underwater, ready to be harvested in a positive, pointing-up sort-of-way. Let's save them... together... for the *future*.
- ummagummas08, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1THATS COOL!! I want one! Why does everyone have to question why its there, and not just enjoy it because it's cool. I mean think about controlling one of those things, you could just kill logs and be like 'HAR HAR HAR IM THE UNDERWATER PIRATE'
That is all. - noouch, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I think the title wins today's WTF award...
- n4cr2k, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I thought the same thing
- simonmcc, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Yeah, me too, no digg to I see the video....
- boredzo, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2There are forests underwater?
- tw0bit, on 10/12/2007, -10/+2OLD
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