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Use electricity to melt snow and that electricity and heat contributes to climate change which makes snow worse and then you use more electricity and heat and then…
Dw it's just a shitpost. I wouldn't actually do something like this.
We can't even afford a snowblower. I shovel everything by hand.
That's 5KW for fairly small area (less than 12x12 ft). Your normal outlet can't support that (you need 240V because of so much power). I would argue that only well-offs can afford that.
Considering the thing itself is $1200, yeah. You could also buy a decent snowblower for that, or a lifetime supply of salt.
Thus solving the problem once and for all!
Except that in this example it really would solve the problem for good by increasing global temperatures until your driveway would never be cool enough to accumulate snow
And the stormwater disruption releasing warm water into streams and rivers early, sometimes triggering eggs/insects/other critters to come out before their food sources are ready and basically starving them out.