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To remove snow, why not try flame throwers?
Posted by Rob Anderson February 1, 2011 12:20 PM

As 28 backhoes and front-end loaders continue to excavate the city from mountains of snow today, there's one question everyone seems to be asking: What's the best way for the city to remove all of this snow? Judging from recent media coverage, this is what we have determined so far: Gas-guzzling Snowzillas are bad, but biodiesel-powered Snow Dragons are awesome. Massive "snow farms" aren't that efficient, but melting snow and dumping it into the ocean could be, if only we could somehow separate it from all of the junk that accumulates with it.

It turns we aren't the first generation of Bostonians to grapple with this question. Back in 1948, Boston Mayor James Michael Curley sent a letter to the president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology asking for the school's engineers to determine the best way of removing snow accumulating in the city. The best part is that he specifically asked the engineers to study whether flame throwers would be a smart snow-melting solution.

The rest: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/blogs/the_angle/2011/02/by_rob_anderson_3.html?p1=Upbox_links

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