AfterTek

How many of us have spent every morning this week trying to defrost the ice off of our windows and windshields of our cars? Not only is it a pain to get it off – but the whole time you are freezing and trying to think of a better way to get the job done. Or else wondering why someone hasn’t already thought of a device to do it for us.

That time has finally come. The new electro-pulse technology is supposedly going to take care of this problem for us. This new technology was developed by Ice Engineering and has been installed onto a 489 foot tall Uddevala cable bridge somewhere in Sweden. It has also been installed onto a 107,639 square foot glass dome mall in Moscow City.

It is supposed to defrost at 20,000 kilowatts per square meter jolt of electricity. In other words it will literally zap the ice off in under a minute. Right now Ice Engineering is testing the electro pulse technology on a windshield using a thin, transparent, electrically conductive film.

In four seconds the technology loosens the hold the ice has on the glass making it easy for us to quickly wipe it away with our windshield wipers. This should help us to keep from freezing too much and to save us a few minutes everyday. Not to mention it could help cut down on C02 emissions from your car sitting in the driveway and running in order to help remove the ice.