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What if you used a flamethrower as a snowblower?

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de⁩ to ⁨xkcd@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYf9-xfm6t8

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  • cron@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Its quite unintuitive how hard it is to melt snow.

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    • Successful_Try543@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Well it’s not gonna be very effective at blowing snow.

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    • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      that channel posted its first video more than a year ago and videos from it have been posted to this community before

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      • papalonian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Someone post the comic about people learning something for the first time.

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  • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Also: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metromelt

    Not a flame thrower, but it is a vehicle which clears snow by melting it.

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  • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Original static webpage version: what-if.xkcd.com/130/

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  • tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-cpDxQFvow

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPWMluZdB4M

    throwflame.com

    No Job Too Big

    Our flamethrowers are designed from the ground up to tackle a job of any size.

    • Snow and ice removal
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