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weltschmerz


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jlbear71 wrote:

Temps dropped here. We have a coating of snow but the roads are fine.

Driveway is a little icy tho.

They're using beet juice in a lot of places where it gets too cold for salt to melt the ice on the roads.

 

 

Nothing beats a beet in bad weather.

On Tuesday, Toronto’s salt trucks will be rolling out across the city spraying salt covered with beet juice to help roads melt in the frigid temperatures.

The method is only used when the thermometer drops below -20 C, the point at which salt alone becomes useless. The beet concoction is good until -32 C.

“When it starts getting really cold, that’s where the sugar beet really shines,” said Tony Vaccari, a manager at Eco Solutions, which manufactures Fusion Liquid De-Icer, the product the city uses.

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2014/01/06/in_torontos_deep_freeze_beet_juice_beats_salt_for_melting_ice.html



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It's been used all over for a long time.



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Not that long. It was first patented in 2000.

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I've never heard of using beet juice...better than eating them, I guess!

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I had never heard of beet juice as a de-icer either. I hope they are using golden beets, not the red ones.

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I'm glad they found something to do with them, since they are too disgusting to eat!biggrinbiggrinbiggrinbiggrinbiggrin

(If you like beets, don't throw rocks. I'm just kidding around!wink)



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Fort Worth Mom wrote:

I'm glad they found something to do with them, since they are too disgusting to eat!biggrinbiggrinbiggrinbiggrinbiggrin

(If you like beets, don't throw rocks. I'm just kidding around!wink)

 They'll have to throw rocks at me too, FWM.

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flan327 wrote:
Fort Worth Mom wrote:

I'm glad they found something to do with them, since they are too disgusting to eat!biggrinbiggrinbiggrinbiggrinbiggrin

(If you like beets, don't throw rocks. I'm just kidding around!wink)

 They'll have to throw rocks at me too, FWM.

flan

 I am on board using beets for de icing, they are nasty to smell and eat.



-- Edited by I know what to do_sometimes on Monday 18th of January 2016 08:29:58 PM

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Hey now ... beets are delicious! Send them to me. DS likes them too.

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FNW wrote:

I had never heard of beet juice as a de-icer either. I hope they are using golden beets, not the red ones.

 Yeah. Does it turn the streets and snow purple when they spray the beet juice?



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