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Quote by: Praxius  There's something called Salt and Sand... if it's too cold, then suck it up and wait until it reaches Zero again so it is effective, as they clearly proven these chemicals don't do squat. |
Salt and sand cannot be used, nor would they be effective on airplane runways. That is what the speaker was discussing.
The most commonly used de-icer on runways is either ethylene glycol or propylene glycol.
Salt and sand are not effective because to work they largely rely on vehicles running over the same path over and over again to spread them into ice.
Furthermore, the granules of salt and sand on the runway would cause poor traction and kick up dangerous particles that could get swept into engines and damage control surfaces on the runways at the high speeds airplanes would be moving over them.
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I have no sympathy for the stupid. That ammount of deaths in a short period of time due to what they claimed were "mostly in traffic accidents" in relation to the snow and ice storms, clearly shows a lack of knowlege of what is required to drive in a snow storm collectively.
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But you didn't say that. What you said was:
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Quote by: Praxius Either that, or stay the hell home people..... just because you have a fancy SUV, that doesn't mean you can fly down the road at highway speeds and think you're gonna stick on the road like velcro..... news flash.... it doesn't work that way. |
You have no proof that people were either driving a "fancy SUV" or that they were "fly[ing] down the road at highway speeds".
Maybe they were driving a front wheel drive sedan and were going 15mph, but slid on ice nonetheless and rolled down an embankment.
My point is that you needlessly blame a certain class of vehicles and assume a behavior for which you have no evidence.