The salts and minerals in the fertilizers work as a retardant for cellulose materials (plants and trees and whatnot) to make them harder to ignite and slow their rate of burn if they do ignite. There's a secondary benefit of being biodegradable and helping burned areas recover after an event as...
They are trying to keep it away from the highway and penned up in those canyons. There's also a small town just at the northern boundary of the current fire line they're trying to protect. The terrain there is too tough for crews so they have to use a mix of slurry bombers and water drop...
Correct. The slurry is a mixture of water, fertilizer, and some chemicals that they drop ahead of a fire line to slow it down and help contain it. They dye it red like that to make it easier to see where they have dropped. it's nontoxic for plants and animals, but toxic to fish, so usually...
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I think it's Iowa. and I typed Ohio. just going off of the article and the ads pointing to the midwest. I have no idea other than that. The "about" doesn't seem to say what area they serve.
This seems more like Florida than Ohio. Is it leaking?
https://www.exploreokoboji.com/news/news-stories/spencer-woman-arrested-after-threatening-officers-with-sword
When I was a kid, I had no problem walking barefoot on the scorching hot sand in summer. I did it frequently to take the garbage out to the can in the back alley. Now? My feet get blisters just threatening them to go out without shoes on. :p
it isn't quite that simple. Removing the salt from the water doesn't make the salt go away, so you have this super salt waste sludge (called brine) left over after you're done. It also often contains other minerals and biological waste (plankton, pathogens, etc) and is somewhat hazardous. Common...
Yes. Desalination tech has existed for thousands of years. Even with modernization, it's expensive though because it requires a lot of energy. I know Multiple nations in the middle East leverage desalination today, but the process needs to keep being improved to become more energy efficient in...