What if you used a flamethrower as a snowblower?

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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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