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Copper-Tracked Snow/Ice Remover

snow remover bot has copper plated tracks to conduct heat & melt ice/snow
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This is a small robot snow/ice remover to clean your driveway and footpath. It's a small tracked vehicle, and the tracks are copper-plated. The engien would be encased in a copper sheath, with heat pipes connecting from the engine to the copper tracks transporting heat to them, to melt the ice/snow underneath.

Pure copper is too soft/ductile, so it would have to a copper alloy with adequate hardness, yet still highly thermally conductive.

This machine would work slowly until it had traversed every square inch of your driveway/footpath to melt all the snow/ice covering them.

sanman, Mar 02 2025

Copper Melts Ice https://youtu.be/vXC_rSEwnGI
let's make use of that [sanman, Mar 02 2025]


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