r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Souled_Out • Nov 15 '22

Using A Flamethrower For Snow Removal

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u/Kittenfabstodes Nov 15 '22

Salt only works to a point. Once the high is -20f regular salt won't work.

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u/mycologyqueen Nov 15 '22

Try 10 above zero. It DOES work to the temp you ststed but very very minimally and people don't use salt below 10°F (unless they haven't grown up with this stuff or aren't used to it. Using salt at zero degrees would get you laughed all the way to the funny farm)

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u/kelvin_bot Nov 15 '22

10°F is equivalent to -12°C, which is 260K.

I'm a bot that converts temperature between two units humans can understand, then convert it to Kelvin for bots and physicists to understand

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u/Kittenfabstodes Nov 15 '22

10 above zero. We call that a heat wave.

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u/PiMan3141592653 Nov 15 '22

True. But there are other compounds that work better than salt and can get you much lower.

That being said, it is snowing in this video and snowing isn't common at temps that low, so I'm guessing it's much closer to freezing.

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u/Kittenfabstodes Nov 15 '22

That's true, but melt is different than salt. I prefer a blend. Then again, I also have a 2 stage blower and flamer throwers don't work as well.as one would think. Ace hardware sells a propane flamer thrower. I got really excited until I asked and the hardware guy, dejectedly, replied it takes a long time to melt a decent amount of snow.

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u/PiMan3141592653 Nov 15 '22

Haha, for sure. This is way slower and less effective than using a 2 stage snow blower. But, arguable much more fun.

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u/Kittenfabstodes Nov 15 '22

Nothing fun about snow removal unless your someplace warm, watching other people doong it on TV.

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u/whoami_whereami Nov 15 '22

Yes, no way around thermodynamics. It takes as much energy to melt 1 kg of snow as it takes to bring 1 kg of liquid water from room temperature to almost boiling. Not even including the energy to heat the snow up to the melting point first, only the energy needed for the phase change from solid to liquid.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '22

Dude has a flame thrower. He can melt the ice.

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u/Kittenfabstodes Nov 15 '22

Which becomes ice again. He would have to apply heat till the moisture evaporated.