Originally Posted by Boomer

Experts are looking at building runways out of materials that don't freeze? I would suggest they consider the following materials...

Lava
Mercury
Strontium 90
Whale blubber
Live Kittens

Of course they will need to figure out a way for aircraft to stop on those materials.

The slacker reporter says nobody ever studied the cost to heat an airport's runways? I'll do it for free using numbers provided by "Doctor Silverstein, the Chappequa Headache Doctor" in the same article.

His 7000 square foot driveway cost $25,000 to install and runs around $800.00 per 24 hours. JF'nK has 7,784,850 square feet of runway. Using the same cost structure, we're looking at $280 million to install and $890,000.00 in electricity for every day it's turned on. Or accidentally left on.

I haven't added in the cost of runway shutdowns, union labor, or buying off the environmentalists and global warming scammers.

One airport, quarter billion to install and a million per day to run it. Seems legit.