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BurnBot raises $20 million to build technology for wildfire prevention

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BurnBot RX burns unwanted vegetation without emitting plumes of smoke. Lora Kolodny for CNBC Last year’s record heat wave worsened drought and dry conditions across the globe, a particularly calamitous situation for California, which has seen 13 of the state’s 20 most destructive wildfires in history break out since 2017. In South San Francisco, a … Read more

Public utilities fall short on wildfire risk mitigation

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Five years and 2,500 miles apart, fires devastated thriving communities — and major U.S. utility companies stood at the center of the infernos. It’s a story increasingly familiar in the energy industry: Some utility companies don’t properly assess the risks wildfires pose to their operations. A failure to mitigate these risks can have disastrous consequences … Read more