The students at the University of Houston, Texas, are working towards a solution to melt the snow on the roads, automatically. Similar to a huge, heavy electric blanket, the students are trying to build “self-heating” roads, which will hopefully eliminate the need for salting trucks or ploughs during heavy snowstorms in the US.
This can be done by inserting electric heating elements into roads or inside the structure of bridges, which will then warm the roads to a degree that will not allow the snow to reside, similar to the subways in New York that help the snow to melt.
The students working on the project, have tried many things with sheets of carbon nanofibres, providing the fastest way to clear snow from the roads.
