Re: Warning... no useful Audi content

[Lowell Lamb <lamb@macs.oandm.uiuc.edu>]

> 
> 
> >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 :)

Or at least rec.aviation.whatdoyoumeantherudderisfrozenagain

:)
Lowell