Edwin Pawlowski wrote:

Anyone know (or speculate) how a flame thrower would work at
clearing a driveway? I'm half serious about that...

Probably not very well and then you have the water to contend with.

"U.S. troops used flamethrowers on the streets of Washington D.C. to
clear snow (as mentioned in a December 1998 article in San Francisco
Flier), one of several clearance methods used for the surprisingly
large amount of snow that fell before the presidential inauguration of
John F. Kennedy."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamethrower

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la5sjVGIdnM


"The cleanup of the Blizzard of 1920 included the bizarre sight of
soldiers from the chemical warfare service of the United States Army
using fuel-spewing flamethrowers to melt snow and ice."

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/31/ny...ty/31snow.html

See also:

http://mirror.linnwood.org/flamethrower/

Probably not very well and then you have the water to contend with.

That's where salt comes in.