It's been an historic winter here in Boston/Cambridge, with record snowfalls and freezing cold temperatures. Watch MIT's Norm Magnuson discusses the ...
- Send up a blimp, or multi-coptor.
- Mount a gimballed directional microwave emitter on it, and a camera.
- Raster the microwave back and forth over the campus, melting all snow.
- Use the camera (and computer vision) to avoid zapping humans and other
sensitive things.
- Profit!
(i don't know if this would melt snow, i've never seen snow)