Drone delivery company Wing has temporarily suspended deliveries to the Canberra suburb of Harrison after a nesting raven swooped a drone delivering coffee.
It has ignited an interesting dichotomy: if such deliveries are the carbon-friendly future, can birds and drones coexist, or should action be taken to mitigate any ill-effects of drones on wildlife?
Drones delivering hot coffee? Yes. Wing delivers hot coffee, groceries, medicine and hardware to locked-down homes in Canberra and non-locked-down ones in Logan, Queensland.
It plans to expand post-lockdown, marketing itself as a zero-emission, low energy, environmentally-friendly, fast and safe method of delivery, which will take cars off the road.
“Hot food and coffee are popular because we fly so fast,” Jesse Suskin, head of public policy at Wing, says. He talks up their pro-environmental, low energy credentials.
“If you order pasta via our app, it takes more energy to cook the pasta than deliver it.”
But now Wing, which started three years ago and is doing a delivery every minute in Canberra and one every 30 seconds in Logan, has now hit hot water itself.
Continue reading: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/01/theyre-territorial-can-birds-and-drones-coexist
It has ignited an interesting dichotomy: if such deliveries are the carbon-friendly future, can birds and drones coexist, or should action be taken to mitigate any ill-effects of drones on wildlife?
Drones delivering hot coffee? Yes. Wing delivers hot coffee, groceries, medicine and hardware to locked-down homes in Canberra and non-locked-down ones in Logan, Queensland.
It plans to expand post-lockdown, marketing itself as a zero-emission, low energy, environmentally-friendly, fast and safe method of delivery, which will take cars off the road.
“Hot food and coffee are popular because we fly so fast,” Jesse Suskin, head of public policy at Wing, says. He talks up their pro-environmental, low energy credentials.
“If you order pasta via our app, it takes more energy to cook the pasta than deliver it.”
But now Wing, which started three years ago and is doing a delivery every minute in Canberra and one every 30 seconds in Logan, has now hit hot water itself.
Continue reading: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/01/theyre-territorial-can-birds-and-drones-coexist
