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A high-tech way to defrost
Dartmouth College engineering professor Victor Petrenko, has devised a way to use a burst of electricity to remove ice caked on walls or windows. For surfaces coated with a special film, the jolt gets rid of ice in less than a second, far less time than it takes to hack at it with an ice scraper.

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Posted by: 3dc 2006-04-16
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