Snow dragon

[Scudly]

Read in the Star Tribune Minneapolis bought a few of these.

The melter is basically a 9 million BTU biodiesel-fired cauldron. It can melt 30 tons of snow an hour, separating pollutants and trash from roughly 160 gallons of water per minute. Then it sends the water -- "cleaner than the snow we dump into it," Scharffbillig said -- down a storm drain or into a retention pond. It burns 53 gallons of biodiesel fuel an hour.

Snow Dragon Ice Melter

[reinhard1]

happy birthday scudly! may you have a trout filled year. good luck.

[Scudly]

Thanks! I'll be trouting soon enough. Just holding out for the first day around 30 or warmer and I'll be hitting Minnesota streams for the pre-season opener (started Jan 1).

[reinhard1]

too bad you dont ice fish for trout much. i will be on grindstone a lot once ice trout opens. of course this summer i will fish the streams on the northshore inland and looking forward to it. good luck.