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Heated Driveway????

Superdrive said:
...I believe DEN also has a few now.
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I'm pretty sure they don't. If they had, they probably wouldn't have needed to shut down for nearly 2 days during the Holiday Blizzard of December 20th to 22nd. DIA is now considering adding new equipment including snow melters (that can melt up to 600 tons of snow an hour; yikes!).
 
Hee hee.

Lauver tosses around ideas for some other projects, possibly a remote-control lawn mower or snowblower, but he had little encouragement from his wife.

"I want him to get some exercise," she said. "He's always controlling everything by remote."
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Now, if only the Roomba people would come out with something for shoveling snow.
 
Heat your driveway? Environmental, green nonsense.

Buy disposable driveways, like what I does. When the first one fills up with snow, dump it and buy a new one. There must be some poor country somewhere that'll take second hand, mostly snow-filled driveways? Ideally, somewhere with not a lot of snow. Or driveways. (Waste not, want not..)

:p
 
emw said:
Hee hee.



Now, if only the Roomba people would come out with something for shoveling snow.
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No. no Roombas. I'm working on a Roomba project at Univ and I HATE it and they don't connect to the computers 99.99999999999999999999999% of the time and #$%^&*()*&:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

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The Lodge family had heated driveways in the comic book Archie. I remember because Archie went skiing once, bounced off of the Lodge's heated driveway and went thru their front window. The physics were all off, but it was a good strip
 
this reminds me of other winter luxuries:

heated toilet
heated bathroom floors
heated towel stand
heated steering wheel
bum warmers in car
heated blanket
heated driveway or apron

i have 4 of them- none of which i bought myself.
 
TequilaBoobs said:
this reminds me of other winter luxuries:

heated toilet
heated bathroom floors
heated towel stand
heated steering wheel
bum warmers in car
heated blanket
heated driveway or apron

i have 4 of them- none of which i bought myself.
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I understand the heated towel stand. I leave mine over the hot air register when I take my shower so its nice and toasty.

As for the heated blanket you just need someone to keep you warm underneath it.
 
ErikCLDR said:
We have a snowblower attached to our tractor to do the driveway, and a walk behind one to do the walkways. I had to shovel the deck, that was more than enough work for me. It was about 4"-6" deep depending on where you were except for the 3ft snow drif that massed right up at the side of the house. I am an athletic person and that was more than enough work for me. I don't see how people can shovel their driveways unless they don't get any snow or have unlimited time and energy to waste shoveling all day.

I am fine with heated driveways, if thats what you want to spend your money on then fine. My neighbors that have it have it because their driveway as very steep and would be dangerous to do with a snow blower. Additionally, the original owners of the house had a Lincoln LS (RWD) and when they didn't turn it on, it was fun to watch the guy try to get up his driveway. We have heated floors in our mudroom, one of our 1/2 baths, and my parents bathroom.
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I'm a big fat lazy slob and even I can shovel off my driveway (about 40 feet) without getting to exhausted. I live in MI, we get a fair amount of snow, not quite the stuff the NE gets, but as an example I cleared 4-5" from a ~25ft length of my driveway (house blocks the back 15ft from getting much snow) plus another 30ft of sidewalk last night in like 25 minutes. Sure, I didn't do a super job in that time (just cleared it wide enough to get the cars in and out, and the sidewalk was only cleared one shovel width) but it wasn't a bog deal.

As for being "OK with heated driveways if that's how people want to spend their money". Well, that's a pretty apathetic attitude. Just because some CAN do something doesn't make it OK. If I was willing to pay the price for killing someone (price being 30+ years in prison or being executed) would that make it OK for me to do it? That's a pretty extreme example, but the point holds. People need to understand that their unneeded, massive energy consumption effects other people.
 
in the future people will wear summer clothes in the winter because they will have a field around them that holds warm air, like a down jacket but without the feathers. mark my words.
 
mrgreen4242 said:
As for being "OK with heated driveways if that's how people want to spend their money". Well, that's a pretty apathetic attitude. Just because some CAN do something doesn't make it OK. If I was willing to pay the price for killing someone (price being 30+ years in prison or being executed) would that make it OK for me to do it? That's a pretty extreme example, but the point holds. People need to understand that their unneeded, massive energy consumption effects other people.
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I think its okay. A couple of years ago as breakfast was winding down I started scraping frosting off of an empty plate that had held cinnamon rolls. My sister stabbed me with her fork. I agreed that I probably deserved it and that it was okay. We came to an agreement that she could continue to stab me and I could continue with the frosting.

Her boyfriend still asked her to marry him.
 
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