{"id":3145,"date":"2018-07-24T11:24:53","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T14:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nachodelatorre.com.ar\/mosconi\/?p=3145"},"modified":"2018-07-24T11:24:53","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T14:24:53","slug":"equipamiento-para-remocion-de-minas-antipersonales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/?p=3145","title":{"rendered":"Equipamiento para remoci\u00f3n de minas antipersonales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><u><\/u>Se estima\u00a0\u00a0que entre 15000 y 20000 personas resultan heridas o muertas anualmente por minas antipersonales y artefactos explosivos, abandonados en zonas de conflicto. La remoci\u00f3n de estos materiales es un grave problema latente, que demanda un enorme esfuerzo humano y serios riesgos. La compa\u00f1\u00eda Mining Machinery Developments ha presentado un veh\u00edculo verdaderamente innovador para cumplir \u00e9sta funci\u00f3n, con bajo riesgo y alta eficiencia.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/icdn6.digitaltrends.com\/image\/mmd-halo-demining-rig-3081-1920x1280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"398\" height=\"265\" \/>For the person with a hammer, every problem they see is a nail. And for a person working for the one of the world\u2019s biggest anti-landmine organizations, every bit of technology is a possible de-mining tool. That\u2019s what happened with Tom Meredith, regional director for the\u00a0HALO Trust, back in 2012.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HALO as an organization has been working toward its goal of a landmine-free planet since 1988. While things have certainly improved since then, its goal is in no way complete. Landmines continue to represent a terrible plague on the world, maiming or killing an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 people every year. Of these, children account for one in five victims.<\/p>\n<p>To remove these mines, HALO has thousands of employees around the world, many of whose job is to spend long days on mine field manually locating the explosives with metal detectors and\u00a0then digging them out by hand.<\/p>\n<p>In the case of one particular site, however, that approach simply wasn\u2019t going to cut it. And Meredith was struggling to come up with an answer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The trouble with soil<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had this problem of how to process wet, sticky soil,\u201d he told Digital Trends. \u201cOne area we were working with had these plastic anti-personnel mines, which are very difficult to find with a metal detector. These were mixed in with some of the stickiest soil you can imagine. We had no easy way of dealing with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"dtvideos-container\">\n<div>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"widget2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YjSGJzdjZsg?feature=oembed\" width=\"569\" height=\"569\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Things changed when a chance connection led to him being linked up with a U.K.-based machinery company called MMD.<\/p>\n<p>MMD \u2014 short for Mining Machinery Developments \u2014 builds innovative mining equipment, designed for handling a wide variety of soil types, from hard and abrasive to wet and sticky. One of its digger-like machines was used for chewing up tough ground full of clay and rocks and breaking it into tiny chunks of 25mm or less. Meredith wondered whether it could do the same for landmines.<\/p>\n<p>He reached out to the company, and found they were receptive. So receptive, in fact, that they offered to not only donate one of their vehicles to the HALO Trust, but to actually build an entirely new scaled-down machine which could be easily deployed on minefields around the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a use for one of their machines that they had never considered before, and one which carried a real human benefit,\u201d Meredith continued. \u201cThey knew that the core principle of their technology \u2014 taking big lumps of rock and making smaller ones \u2014 was up to the job, but they\u2019d never made anything like this before. They had to adapt their whole \u2018sizer\u2019 unit in order to accomplish this task. It was crucial that it would work, since even letting a single mine through by accident would be unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>The landmine muncher<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/icdn7.digitaltrends.com\/image\/mmd-halo-demining-rig-3080-1920x1280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"401\" height=\"267\" \/>Six years of research and development later, and MMD has delivered its awesome final product: a mine-munching tank of a machine, weighing 30 tons, and capable of chewing through 50 tons of soil every hour. This soil is loaded into the armored rig and then fed through two sets of rotating steel teeth called \u201csizers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the mines do detonate inside the machine, the 150 grams of high explosive each mine packs has about as much impact as a tiny pothole does on a tractor. Using one single rig, HALO and MMD believe it should be possible to destroy 100,000 mines by 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be heading off to Zimbabwe within a month or two,\u201d Meredith said, referring to the African country where thousands of landmines were laid along its borders during the Liberation War of the 1960s and 70s. Even today, there are an estimated 5,500 unexploded landmines per 3,000 cubic feet in these zones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce it\u2019s out there, there will be a period of testing and accreditation. But we hope it will then be out in the field destroying mines before the end of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>The future of anti-landmine tech<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Landmine-munching machines aren\u2019t the only example of smart tech intended for this task. Previously at Digital Trends, we\u2019ve covered other innovative initiatives, such a project to\u00a0use drones to locate landmines, one that uses\u00a0lasers and fluorescent bacteria for the same task, and even one\u00a0based around an army of oddball robot turtles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a lot of really bright ideas that come across our desk,\u201d Meredith said, discussing the future of landmine-eliminating technology. \u201cSometimes it comes from military use, sometimes it\u2019s from commercial companies, other times it\u2019s just your stereotypical inventor in their garage conjuring up clever tools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While he warns that the issue is more complex than some expect (\u201cIt\u2019s rarely a perfect football pitch with a precise pattern of mines for you to go and spot\u201d), it\u2019s out-of-the-box thinking like this that will lead to a world in which injuries and deaths by landmine are relegated to be a terrible relic of the past.<\/p>\n<p>Most important of all is to keep your eyes and ears open. Because you never know when a chance comment about a piece of ground-chewing agricultural machinery could change the game.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Fuente:<\/strong>\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/cool-tech\/landmine-munching-machine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Se estima\u00a0\u00a0que entre 15000 y 20000 personas resultan heridas o muertas anualmente por minas antipersonales y artefactos explosivos, abandonados en zonas de conflicto. 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