On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 14:09:14 -0500, "Peter R."
wrote:

Viperdoc wrote:

However, in severe conditions I would not want to trust my
life to the supposition that TKS makes me invincible.

I cannot imagine there is any technology that makes a pilot "invincible."

Two or three years ago a professor here at the engineering school of
Dartmouth developed a deicing technique that he was claiming would
work on just about anything including tires, windshields, airplane
wings, or whatever.

It involved running a type of low voltage charge through the object.
The charge causes ice to outgas so that it cannot gain a purchase on
the object. It either slides off or is blown off.

I asked where this project was a year ago or so and was told that it
was now in the hands of private companies who are working on making it
a viable product.

Corky Scott