This would happen due to two reasons. First of all the impregnated material would inhibit the ignition of further trees and secondly and far more importantly the sheets would create an environment that makes it far more difficult for fresh oxygen to rush into the frontline of the fires from below the trees.

The amylose sheets have to be quite thin in order to cover a huge area with only one flight and of course they have to be biodegradable and very simply to be cut into pieces by physical force.

Unfortunately i do not know how big these sheets have to be in order to be effective against the fire while still leaving it possible for firefighters to move into the burning area that has to be extinguished.

First of all, there have to be made some computer simulations to conduct a proof of concept and later on there have to be made some prototypes of these sheets that after being released, open up in the air after some time (depending on the wind speed) and fall in a pinpoint fashion onto their target only due to their orientation in the air (i know there are a lot of technical questions to be solved).

but by this technology it would far more simple to control these fires – in the end it also would be very cheap compared to the conventional methods…

I wonder why nobody came up with such an idea yet. Again and again i think about how many lifes can be saved by such an invention….