I had to drive to the big city early this morning--actually more like "middle of the night" when I took off--and as luck would have it, immediately upon turning onto the highway, a state highway truck smearing ice remover passed by. And so it took me about an hour and a half to go 42 miles, but that was okay; I was perfectly happy following about a city-block's length behind him.
Much blowing snow, "white-outs," ice on the roads.
So much white-out that at times the only thing one could see were the three large blinking blue lights of the truck in front.
Anyway.
I dunno what they use in the other parts of Nebraska where the terrain is different--Nebraska has seven distinctive sorts of terrain--but up here on the roof of Nebraska, they use an ice-remover made from.....corn.
It was apparently invented at the University of Michigan some years ago.
It's liquid, and it seems to work really good.
Of course, road conditions are much different here, than they are in most of the rest of the country (and even in much of Nebraska). Good smooth roads; the two-lane highways here would be four lanes anywhere else, and little to nil traffic; sometimes one can go 10-12 miles before seeing another motor vehicle on the highway.
I suppose most agencies in charge of keeping highways clear of snow and ice use what's best for the place.
This corn-made ice remover is great; it works instantly, and causes no damage to the surface of the road, or the nearby flora, or by automobiles slushing through it. It's just corn, after all.
But everything, all things, have a down-side to them.
Is anyone aware of any down-side to corn-made ice-remover?
Like, is it maybe a lot more expensive than other methods of ice removal?
