Product: Snow: Clearing
Preemptive Snowblower   (0)  [vote for, against]
Persuade the flakes to fall elsewhere.

If I had a vertical-axis propeller spinning above my driveway when it snows, creating an outward airflow, maybe a modest air flow would deflect the snow such that it would fall in a circle beyond my driveway.

Or instead of a blower, maybe an electrostatic attractor on one side.
-- flypaper, Dec 06 2003

Think of all the snow that would 'grow' in a circle around your fan in the driveway, having settled out of the fan's intake air. I wonder if it would be more concentrated than just regular precipitation...

Either way this idea seems perfect for the halfbakery. +
-- Tiger Lily, Dec 06 2003


Just when I couldn't figure out what to get Dubbya for christmas...
-- Overpanic, Dec 06 2003


Use one of those outdoor propane heaters blowing down the length of your drive for the storm duration.
-- waugsqueke, Dec 06 2003



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