Neat News 976 (added 2018-09-02)

Preventing Ice on Airplanes

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In winter, airplanes occasionally need de-icing in a wasteful process, either using chemicals or heat. Also other surfaces such as powerlines or wind turbines can have the same problem. A new coating, can make use of sunlight for the de-icing process and this way save resources.

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