chilly
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- May 13, 2006
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Hate to tell you Chilly but sunlight in the upper and lower latitudes has a higher incidence (angle) so there isn’t as much UV radiation. And even though Alaska has longer hours of sunlight, the sun is fairly low in the sky for many of those hours.
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And at least in Fairbanks, they just put sand on top of the snow/ice on the roads when I was there. There weren’t many chemicals in use that I know of but that was just my experience.
The fact that you mention so many cars are in poor condition I guess means they use chemicals down where you live. I believe OCW definitely helped keep the condition of your cars but I also wonder how much of that is due to others not keeping their cars clean. Cause we know you aren’t even remotely close to 99.9% of the usual car owners in AK when it comes to upkeep.
So you are going to ruin a good argument with scientific facts?
Pftttttt
lol
Here they mix salt at 20:1 (dirt/salt) into the huge mounds of dirt/fine gravel that the state uses on the roads because it keeps the mounds from turning into a solid block of frozen dirt
A few years ago they started spraying potassium acetate on areas where they don't want to use sand and although it is less corrosive than brine it is still not your friend
It is my understanding that UVB rays are less in the higher and lower latitudes but UVA rays are not diminished up here/down there
I am sure you are correct that maintenance is one of the keys