This is pretty cool, I wonder if this could be used on roofs in places where ice dams [0] are a big problem. An alternative and cheaper system which my team an

This is pretty cool, I wonder if this could be used on roofs in places where ice dams [0] are a big problem. An alternative and cheaper system which my team and I developed in our undergrad senior capstone was to use drip irrigation mounted to roofs (and organic deicing fluid) to mitigate ice dams. This was accomplished by dripping fluid down the roof to "cut" channels into the ice dam to allow the water built up behind the dam, to drain off of the roof. I think you could possibly do something similar by placing strips of this 3-layered material vertically oriented on a roof to melt channels in the ice dam.. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_dam_(roof) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_dam_(roof)