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April 15th, 2006

A high-tech way to defrost | CNET News.com

Humans have been getting rid of ice the wrong way for centuries, it turns out.

Dartmouth College engineering professor Victor Petrenko, not to be confused with one of the Champions on Ice, 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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