So yeah lets use salt on roads to mess up cars etc. and turn the fresh water streams that all the poor critters drink from into salt water thats just wonderful. Salt melts snow and ice then it hardens into a slippery mess, better to have it hard and crusty for traction.
Using Beet Juice on Roads in Winter
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Not in Kentucky. You just dump more salt over the coming days until there's a 1:1(exaggerating) ratio of salt to water. I wish I was kidding. Now that the roads are covered in nothing but salt brine (no frozen precipitation to be found despite temps being low singles)-- about the time you think you're going to hit a frost heave or road imperfection doing 50mph, it's a giant salt pile-- they're like minefields around here, salt solution dumped that can't absorb into the water. It's crazy.
Never saw anything like that when I lived in Colorado for well over a decade-- sand and sunshine, magnesium chloride pre-treat and after-treatment when needed. Vehicles lasted 20+ years. Maybe they've gotten more aggressive by now, I moved away from Colo Springs area in 2017.
Pretreating is a waste, save the salt/beet juice for after the storm to mix with salt. Pretreat makes no sense, unless you luck out with the weather which is a crap shoot, most of the time i washes off the road or makes the road slippery.
I bought some beetroot juice to drink for health reason. Anyone want a case of beet root juice with just one bottle gone?
Often such brine is also radioactive.
Makes it extra melt-y
They need to start using non-chloride deicers more.
Sodium formate, sodium acetate, potassium formate, potassium acetate
The sodium ones are solid/granular, while the potassium ones usually come as a liquid
Sodium formate, sodium acetate, potassium formate, potassium acetate
The sodium ones are solid/granular, while the potassium ones usually come as a liquid