DoD Wants to Save the Environment With Bullets That Plant Seeds

[SZonian]

It already looks like the Trump administration will be very bad for the environment. He’s basically picking the worst person possible to run every agency that is charged with protecting the Earth. But there’s one agency he’ll never gut—the Department of Defense. And it has a wacky plan to do some good with bullets that biodegrade and spread life.

The DoD currently has an open call posted to the Small Business Innovation Research program’s website. It’s seeking proposals for an idea that’s almost Buddhist in its intended cycle of death begetting life. The accepted applicant would be tasked with creating a bullet that would be used on the U.S. Army’s training grounds around the world. This innovative bullet needs to fire in the normal way and when it’s left behind it should biodegrade and plant a specially engineered seed.

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http://gizmodo.com/dod-wants-to-save-the-environment-with-bullets-that-pla-1790937385

[Doug Loss]

Gizmodo is part of Gawker Media, replete with SJWs and other varieties of leftists.  But if you look past all the snark, this is an intriguing idea.  Whether it would work or not is in question, but the idea's interesting.

[Sanguine]

A training bullet that biodegrades may be a good idea.  Mother Nature seems to do a good job of planting without needing bullets.

[Wingnut]

[Oceander]

Gizmodo is part of Gawker Media, replete with SJWs and other varieties of leftists.  But if you look past all the snark, this is an intriguing idea.  Whether it would work or not is in question, but the idea's interesting.

Agree completely.  One doesn't need to be an ecofreak to know that filling up firing ranges with millions of spent rounds fired for training isn't the greatest thing to do ecologically. So if a company can come up with a degradable round that has the same firing, flight, and impact characteristics as a real round, that would be a good idea.