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That's actually incredibly useful. The aviation industry and any pilots must be stoked.

• petermcneeley 8y ago
  This probably wont work well if all in cloudy days or with any kind of snowfall (due to very low amounts of incoming irradiance). Also, just the aluminum coating in this 3 layer material weighs 586 kg for a 747 wing area.
  • neltnerb 8y ago
    Wow, that does seem like a huge amount. On the other hand, 184,567 kg is the empty weight so it's "only" a 0.3% increase. Maybe not so bad since they don't need to carry deicer anymore?
    • cpncrunch 8y ago
      They dont carty deicer anyway...they use bleed air from the engines.