Heated Airport Runways

There have been tens of thousands of flight delays and cancellations due to winter snowstorms weather this year. Not only that: snow and ice at airports can send planes skidding off slippery runways.

At Des Moines International Airport in Iowa, they have a new technology in heated runways and tarmacs.

"We have stainless steel electrodes embedded within the concrete," explained Halil Ceylan, head researcher of the Iowa State University team that developed the technology. "Then we connect it to power, turn the electricity on. It generates heat and it melts ice and snow on it."

Radiant heating systems are nothing new; after all, the Romans used them 2000 years ago. For over fifty years Eichlers Homes were built with radiant floor heating.

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