Sentences with phrase «of deicing»
The use of deicing road salts has increased from.28 million metric tons per year in the 1940s to over 16 million metric tons per year today.
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And lots of deicing salt too.
As Kobo and Amazon compete in Germany and push greater awareness of their deices, will the greater availability of devices that will create drive ebook uptake
Not exact matches
Human groundwater contamination can be related to waste disposal (private sewage disposal systems, land disposal of solid waste, municipal wastewater, wastewater impoundments, land spreading of sludge, brine disposal from the petroleum industry, mine wastes, deep - well disposal of liquid wastes, animal feedlot wastes, radioactive wastes) or not directly related to waste disposal (accidents, certain agricultural activities, mining, highway deicing, acid rain, improper well construction and maintenance, road salt).
Last year, the legislature unanimously banned hydrofracking on county - owned property, and on April 12, County Executive Michael Hein signed an executive order prohibiting the use of brine for road deicing on all county roads.
Sand, gravel, coal, deicing salt or diamonds, grain, sugar, coffee or grapes and waste — a lot of everyday goods are more or less grainy.
Inspired by these structures, researchers created a membrane of tiny overlapping nanofibers with similar deicing powers, which may pave the way for uniquely ice - resistant materials.
The study is the first to demonstrate that the animals can rapidly evolve higher tolerance to road salt, and indicates that freshwater ecosystems may possess some resilience in the face of a 50-fold increase in road deicing salt applications since the 1940s.
Some scientists at MIT and Cal created a deice that can pull moisture out of the air using solar power.
The company produces salt (primarily used by cities for deicing roads but has many consumer and industrial uses as well), specialty potash (a premium fertilizer that improves the quality, yield, and shelf life of high - value fruit, vegetable, and tree nut crops), micronutrients (essential minerals that maximize plant yields), and magnesium chloride (used in numerous ways including roadway deicing, dust control, and as plant nutrients for wheat crops).
Weather during the four quarter of 2015 was the warmest in at least a decade, so it's no surprise there was less demand for deicing salt.
According to the latest available data from the U.S. Geological Survey, during the thirty - year period ending 2012, the production of salt used in highway deicing and for consumer and industrial products in the U.S. has increased at an historical average of approximately 1 % per year.
First, an economical substitute for rock salt would potentially impact almost half of CMP's business (highway deicing = 49 % of sales), which is not very well diversified.
weather from January through March, and it's important to note that about two - thirds of the company's deicing product sales occur during November through March each year when winter weather is most severe.
They reorder as their supply is used, which can significantly shift the supply - demand dynamic in favor of salt producers during extreme winter weather events — CMP's average price on awarded highway deicing contracts rose by 25 % in 2014 as a result.
As of today, there are no known cost - effective substitutes for most high - volume uses of salt, including deicing.
They make most of their money producing and selling road deicing salt for use in cold snowy climates.
Some of the newbie guides I read made being a tank class sound too daunting and being a healer sounds kind of boring, so I deiced to go with a DPS class.
The ability of methanol to dissolve chloride salts and the use of «Rock Salt» in deicing Norther Cities is a big nightmare; get salt water into a storage tank and place that in engines would be hugely damaging.
A 2014 U.S. Geological Survey study concluded: «Average chloride concentrations often exceed toxic levels in many northern United States streams due to the use of salt to deice winter pavement, and the frequency of these occurrences nearly doubled in two decades.»
We have defended the world's leading deicing equipment manufacturer against multiple claims arising from fatal crashes of cargo and private flights involving deicing equipment installed on Cessna 208B Caravan aircraft.
With the company openly declaring that the major changes have been spared for the 2017 iPhone, many have deiced to hold back this year's upgrade in favor of a better iPhone 8 in a year's time.
Performed general aircraft servicing duties such as fueling, deicing, cleaning, and security of aircraft as well as other duties as assigned
Specialized in the balancing of flight controls and landing gear inspections and wing deice boot replacement.