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OH for heavens sake, I thought you guys were men. I just squirt a little bit of water, or I softly drag some plastic, how about I gently rub them until the snow oozes off, then there's, I put up some heat tape to gently melt off the snow or softly throw some rock salt. Damn, your kidding right? Your men for heaven sake use your manly ideas like: Napalm or a flamethrower is nice on a cold winter day, just blast the stuff of in a wild frenzy. Who cares if the neighbour's house burns it will help keep the ice off your panels for a while.
Then there is the good old nitrate class, hang a bag or two of blasting pellets on a stick up in the air and touch it off and the shock wave will displace the snow and ice. I always enjoy using detonation cord, man is it fun, way more fun than the law allows. You can get a spool of 100 feet of so and wrap it in a spiral up the pole. When you shoot it and the pole will look like a screw. The shock wave again will displace the ice and snow and most likely remove the neighbour's windows but the heat loss from his house will keep the snow off for a while.
See how useful the neighbour has become. And you turned him in for growin pot, aren't you ashamed? My all time favourite is to take a pint of homemade nitro and put it in to little vials and lob them over the fence to the house next door and the dog starts barking like mad and as soon as the guy comes out of the house I lob another into the back of his car where I have a hidden surprise under the gas tank. The car then jumps up off the ground about twenty feet and lands right on top of the house in a giant burning wreck. The ensuing commotion causes plenty of heat in the air by all of the yelling and running around and panicking until the swat team gets there. As the neighbours get hauled to jail for terrorism.
Oh yea, you called the FBI and turned them in for suspicion of running a terror cell and of coarse you left your bags and boxes from all of the nitrates, glycerines, sulphuric acid, timers, loose cell phones, pictures of Osama and his buddy So Damn Insane. Damn, you think you know your neighbours! Oh well, you had to clean off the cells so you can watch the repeats of Fantasy Island. Dah plane, Dah plane! Good luck, have fun and enjoy the holiday season!
Badmoonryzn