Comments on: Sea Dust, pt 1

By: mwhite

mwhite — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:05:38 +0000

R Tyler, this is confusing.
From our understanding 50% of salt in cold-climate regions is used for de-icing, whereas less than 10% globally is used for de-icing.

By: R Tyler

R Tyler — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:11:41 +0000

I was confused by these two statements: "About 50% of industrialized salt production is used in cold-climate regions for de-icing." "Industrial salt production is a massive enterprise of which less than 10% is for use in de-icing."

Is it ~50% or <10%?

By: Palpitar

Palpitar — Fri, 22 May 2009 21:24:25 +0000

Brilhante.Sou fa deste s

By: Anthony

Anthony — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:06:17 +0000

Small quibble with the article: my local municipalities were not stocking up on salt early in the year, as we well knew that it was an exceptional, record-breaking year for snow last year.

Instead, depleted and exhausted stocks were being replaced, in expectation of a typical snow year, for the winter of 2008-2009.

By: wilful

wilful — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 02:23:25 +0000

where does the salt go? groundwater? Isn't that a real risk of damaging the environment?

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