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High-Tech Electro-Defroster
DahBaker writes to mention a News.com story about an ingenious way to de-ice a surface. From the article: "Dartmouth College engineering professor Victor Petrenko, not to be confused with one of the Champions on Ice, has devised a way to use a burst of electricity to remove ice caked on walls or windows. For surfaces coated with a special film, the jolt gets rid of ice in less than a second, far less time than it takes to hack at it with an ice scraper. While drivers might find easy-cleaning windshields convenient, the technology--called thin-film pulse electrothermal de-icing, or PETD--could have significant economic impact if widely deployed. It could, for example, cut the costs of repairing power lines downed by ice storms and keep plane windshields frost-free, decreasing fuel consumption."
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Victor Petrenko, not to be confused with one of the Champions on Ice - If you put those two into the same room, hilarity and confusion are bound to ensue, since they seem to be the Ice Champion and the Anti Ice Champion, the Ying and the Yang. We must keep them as far away from each other as possible, or there could be an anti-matter equivalent explosion.
You can't handle the truth.