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Boston has some jet powered train track snow blowers, albeit for very different reasons (heat, not electricity).

• bonestamp2 6y ago
  Some airports have truck mounted jet engines that they use for clearing light snow from runways.
• seanmcdirmid 6y ago
  There is that Russian tank attached with two jet turbines on its turret used to put out natural gas (or oil?) field fires. I wouldn’t be surprised if a snow blower was using the jet turbines more for its blow ability than its heat ability.
  • lostlogin 6y ago
    A thing like this, known as a GAG (Górniczy Agregat Gaśniczy) was used at the Pile River mine in New Zealand after an accident there. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorniczy_Agregat_Gasniczy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorniczy_Agregat_Gasniczy
    • namibj 6y ago
      Note that the GAG is used to suffocate coal seam and similar fires, by injecting a mix of water and fuel into the jet exhaust (essentially an afterburner with water-injection to keep the exhaust temperature low), and then providing a pipe of very-low-oxygen gas stream.
  • namibj 6y ago
    Yes, there are actually fire-fighting "tanks" [0] that disperse water into the exhaust of a jet turbine to get long-distance spraying [1]. [0]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/Abgasloeschfahrzeug_Hurricane_-_FW-Museum_Fulda_%281997%29.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/Abgasloe... [1]: (There doesn't seem to be a comparable en site, but images and machine translation work): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerosoll%C3%B6schfahrzeug https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerosoll%C3%B6schfahrzeug