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New Electro-Pulse Technology Could De-Ice Your Car in Seconds

De-Icing in Seconds with Electro-Pulse Technology
On a cold, frosty morning, having to go out and start your car a few minutes early to get the de-icer working is a drag. So, too, is breaking out the window scraper and hacking away, causing your fingers slowly to go numb. A new tech could remove that delay, literally blowing the ice off of your car in seconds with a 20,000-kilowatt electro-pulse!

The tech is currently being used on the 489-foot-tall Uddevalla bridge in Sweden, and also on a glass dome in Moscow. Instead of using wires that slowly warm and melt the ice, an electric surge of 20,000-kilowatts per square meter causes the ice to detach from the surface, quickly falling away. It's believed the tech could also be applied to cars, where it would actually save energy by not having to let your car run so long while the ice melts, but we're not entirely sure just how many intact fuses you'd have left after a jolt like that. [From: AutoBlog]

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