Road salt has been a point of contention lately, what with all this wintry weather. If you live in a snowy climate, you’re probably used to seeing warehouses and dump trucks full of the stuff. But where does all that ice-melting goodness come from? National Geographic brings us this fascinating, oddly soothing video explaining the unsung hero’s origin story.
https://gizmodo.com/new-jersey-cant-get-its-road-salt-because-a-ship-is-mi-1525363069
The numbers thrown around in this video are almost too huge to grasp; at roughly 18 tons per truckload, the U.S. used nearly a million trucks’ worth of road salt in 2013. One can only imagine 2014’s number is already pretty healthy thanks to this year’s wacky winter weather. Makes the Ocean’s 11-style 24-ton salt heist pulled off by Sochi Olympics organizers seem like a drop in the (salty) ocean by comparison. [National Geographic via Digg]
https://gizmodo.com/why-the-south-fell-apart-in-the-snow-1511566912
