Ever had to wait on the tarmac for your plane to de-ice? This startup has a quicker solution

The startup De-Ice uses tape and currents to heat up the surface of an airplane.

When he was in grad school at MIT, Alex Bratianu-Badea got stuck on a plane at Boston Logan Airport that had to be de-iced, delaying the flight. As he watched how the process worked, he wondered if there was a better way to do it. “They just basically spray hot chemicals onto the aircraft,” he says. “It was a little mind-boggling.”

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