[TowerTalk] "Electric Cement"

[Terry Dunlap]

At 04:43 PM 7/9/97 -0500, pflorig@mcs.net wrote:
>Hi All,
>Read the following in the May, 97 issue of R&D Magazine.
>"
>By injecting conductive materials into a concrete mix,
>researchers at the National Research Council Institute for 
>Research in Construction, Ottawa, Canada (613-993-6749),
>have made a hot new product. Called conductive concrete, the
>plug-in material is expected to be able to heat houses and
>clear driveways of ice and snow. Strong and cheap to produce,
>the material was originally developed as an anti-corrosion
>system for rustprone steel reinforcements in bridges and
>parking garages, and will be used to prolong the lives of these
>structures.
>"
>Any ideas???

Yeah!!!  I wouldn't have to lay radials all over my concrete deck!
The whole thing would be conductive!!

73 de Terry KK6T



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