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Offline Sumner

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Re: Poor Salt Conditions - all topics merged into one
« Reply #900 on: August 26, 2015, 10:31:56 PM »
Is the salt report that Russ Ayers produced that everyone keeps mentioning available to the public, or only SCTA members?
I can find no links to it, folks mentioning it never bother to say where it can be found.

If you want general public and the racing community at large to support action, you need to make this report easy to find online.

http://www.savethesalt.org/bsf-measurements.html

On the STS site here...

http://www.savethesalt.org/current-events.html

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Re: Poor Salt Conditions - all topics merged into one
« Reply #901 on: August 26, 2015, 11:31:10 PM »
Thanks Sum!
I was looking for a feature article titled "salt report" or some such.

By the way note to the web master for the save the salt web pages.

Your choice of link colors on that page is not very friendly to folks who are red green colorblind (about 10% of your viewers)
I am almost totally blind to that color choice and the links are extremely hard to read.

The only ones I noticed were the links buried in text, I never even saw the group of links surrounded by white space. If you want everyone to see your links you might want to try a much darker blue rather than a pale turquoise (my color blind tool says the color triplet of the links is pale turquoise (A0 F5 FF) or pale blue (A0 DF FF) a royal blue (3B 59 B9) works much much better.
Almost no one is color blind to blue but shades near turquoise or cyan are a big problem for folks who are red green colorblind. In some cases I literally cannot see those colors if they are pale pastel shades even if I am looking for them.

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Re: Poor Salt Conditions - all topics merged into one
« Reply #902 on: August 27, 2015, 01:03:12 AM »
Because some may know Ron AYERS from ThrustSSC and BloodhoundSSC in the UK,

It should be noted that American STS Treasurer Russ EYRES (pronounced the same) is spelled slightly different

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Re: Poor Salt Conditions - all topics merged into one
« Reply #903 on: August 27, 2015, 08:42:37 PM »
Because some may know Ron AYERS from ThrustSSC and BloodhoundSSC in the UK,

It should be noted that American STS Treasurer Russ EYRES (pronounced the same) is spelled slightly different

Ron Ayers was also the JCB DieselMax aerodynamicist. He was at Speedweek with the JCB team.

Regards, Neil  Tucson, AZ
Regards, Neil  Tucson, AZ

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Re: Poor Salt Conditions - all topics merged into one
« Reply #904 on: August 28, 2015, 02:14:21 AM »
Indeed he was! That was his slippery design.

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Re: Poor Salt Conditions - all topics merged into one
« Reply #905 on: August 28, 2015, 07:26:28 PM »
I have the scale model of JCB Diesel streamliner, it is very nice, Andy Green did a very good job of driving it at Speed Week in 2006.  :cheers:
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Re: Poor Salt Conditions - all topics merged into one
« Reply #906 on: August 28, 2015, 09:39:12 PM »
How about that push vehicle they used????

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Re: Poor Salt Conditions - all topics merged into one
« Reply #907 on: August 29, 2015, 12:29:22 PM »
This pic shows about 45 miles of I-80 from Wendover in the top left corner to the Knolls exit in the lower right. If you know the area you can see Bonneville, the Silver Island Mt's, Floating Mt & to the right of that is the salt flats that is part of Eagle Range (U.S.A.F. gunnery range). This pic was taken from over Dugway Proving Ground which is a civilian no fly zone.
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Re: Poor Salt Conditions - all topics merged into one
« Reply #908 on: August 29, 2015, 12:36:32 PM »
Don't believe everything you read!
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonneville_Salt_Flats

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Re: Poor Salt Conditions - all topics merged into one
« Reply #909 on: August 29, 2015, 12:50:50 PM »
Once known as the Salduro Salt Pan, Bonneville had a taste of speed in 1914 with the Blitzen Benz 2 at 142.85 mph.
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Re: Poor Salt Conditions - all topics merged into one
« Reply #910 on: August 29, 2015, 01:24:40 PM »
Don't believe everything you read!
  Sid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonneville_Salt_Flats

  Since 1998, 10,700,000 tons of salt pumped onto the salt flats. Truck and trailer at 50,000lbs or 25 tons = how many truck
(equivalent) loads delivered?  428,000 truck loads :-o YEA RIGHT.

  Save The Salt...Don't believe every thing your told.

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Re: Poor Salt Conditions - all topics merged into one
« Reply #911 on: August 29, 2015, 02:06:52 PM »
It's time to invoke the Reclamation section of the lease;

Restore the surface to level and plug the wells.

Nothing less.

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Re: Poor Salt Conditions - all topics merged into one
« Reply #912 on: August 29, 2015, 02:10:25 PM »
Don't believe everything you read!
  Sid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonneville_Salt_Flats

  Since 1998, 10,700,000 tons of salt pumped onto the salt flats. Truck and trailer at 50,000lbs or 25 tons = how many truck
(equivalent) loads delivered?  428,000 truck loads :-o YEA RIGHT.

  Save The Salt...Don't believe every thing your told.

               JL222

Does that 10.7M tons mean the weight of the brine or of just the salt? Brine is mostly water, after all.

Regards, Neil  Tucson, AZ
Regards, Neil  Tucson, AZ

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Re: Poor Salt Conditions - all topics merged into one
« Reply #913 on: August 29, 2015, 02:24:58 PM »
Does it really matter? 10.7M tons is a crap load of material.

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Re: Poor Salt Conditions - all topics merged into one
« Reply #914 on: August 29, 2015, 02:28:59 PM »
Don't believe everything you read!
  Sid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonneville_Salt_Flats

  Since 1998, 10,700,000 tons of salt pumped onto the salt flats. Truck and trailer at 50,000lbs or 25 tons = how many truck
(equivalent) loads delivered?  428,000 truck loads :-o YEA RIGHT.

  Save The Salt...Don't believe every thing your told.

               JL222

Does that 10.7M tons mean the weight of the brine or of just the salt? Brine is mostly water, after all.

Regards, Neil  Tucson, AZ

  If you follow Kiwi's link it says salt, not brine. Salt left after brine evaporation.
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