Re: Warning... no useful Audi content

[David Hunt <dhunt@cisco.com>]

>You guys are actually serious about this. The prototype is in Rochester? It
>would seem to me that the cost, in terms of $ amount would be much higher for
>the "broiler-method." It costs alot of energy to heat something as large as a
>747 up for long enough to melt the ice. That energy has to be produced either
>by a nuclear or oil burning electric plant. Since neither is truly a clean
>source of energy, the choice between ethylene-glycol based cleaning systems and
>ones that use electrical power seems to be moot. Right? 

It it my understanding that the de-icing planes currently undergo also have
some form of anti-icing with it.  If you heat the plane it is going to
return to 
below freezing very quickly.  Maybe we should move this rec.aviation.misc :)

Dave.
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