DX Wombat
Thank you GG. It sounds as if what is really needed is a drive-through huge hangar heated to such a temperature that all snow and ice are completely removed and the wings dried completely. That is just one of my fanciful ideas and would probably have the energy saving brigade up in arms at the thought of it.
Someone beat you to the idea. The drive-through de-icing system (using Infrared) is already in operation at a few airports including a smaller field in Wisconsin for RJ-sized aircraft (1998), Newark (2000) and JFK (2006).
The nicest by-product of such a system is that it pits the energy-saving brigade against the ground-pollutant brigade. The rest of us can sit back, relax, and enjoy watching the handbag duel.