This is what they want to be using:
Thanks to an innovation from NASA’s Ames
Research Center, this danger could one day be eliminated.
Ames patented the Electro Expulsive Separation System
(EESS), which is now licensed to Ice Management Systems,
Inc. (IMS), of Temecula, California.
EESS is an aircraft ice removal system, appropriately
nicknamed the “ice zapper.” According to the principle
inventor, Leonard Haslim, “It pulverizes ice and removes
layers of ice as thin as frost or as thick as an inch of glaze.”
The EESS consists of layers of conductors encased in materials
that are bonded directly to the airframe structure. When
ice accumulates on the aircraft, an electric current is sent
through the conductors, causing them to pulse. Even though
the conductors move less than a twenty-thousandth of an
inch in just a millisecond, the movement is sufficient to
pulverize the ice. It is this highly accelerated motion that
shatters the ice into particles the size of table salt; too small to
be harmful to the aircraft.
http://technology.arc.nasa.gov/succe...ng2001_p73.pdf