Well it’s not gonna be very effective at blowing snow.
What if you used a flamethrower as a snowblower?
Submitted 4 weeks ago by schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to xkcd@lemmy.world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYf9-xfm6t8
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Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 weeks ago
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
that channel posted its first video more than a year ago and videos from it have been posted to this community before
papalonian@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Someone post the comic about people learning something for the first time.
tal@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-cpDxQFvow
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPWMluZdB4M
No Job Too Big
Our flamethrowers are designed from the ground up to tackle a job of any size.
- Snow and ice removal
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Also: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metromelt
Not a flame thrower, but it is a vehicle which clears snow by melting it.
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Original static webpage version: what-if.xkcd.com/130/
cron@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
Its quite unintuitive how hard it is to melt snow.
Successful_Try543@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
From the energy perspective, you need a certain amount to increase the temperature of the snow form initial temperature to over 0°C, and another amount to overcome the latent heat (heat of transformation) from solid ice to liquid water.
The latter, the heat of transformation, has been used for making ice cream whitout a refrigerator: Melting ice cubes in a large bowl with the help of salt was used as a cooling agent to freeze the container of smaller bowl placed inside the larger one.