Best Solution to De-Ice Alaska´s Road Ways

Trash, roads, cars, smoke, gas, buildings, this is something you can find in town. The Kenai Peninsula is one of the few places where you can catch trout still in America. It is expressed as "one of the most beautiful places on Earth". This is our community that protects all the beauty of rivers, animals, and Alaska. Alaska has cleaned our road, but in the process we used a lot of road salt. Road salt is very harmful to the environment, animals, trees, earth, water, cars and roads.

Solar road: The way to completely substitute anti-freeze chemicals is the idea of ​​freezing road. Although the idea is still in the early stages, it involves solar panels on either the road heating the pavement itself or heating pipelines filled with fluids in the road. Although it is more expensive than traditional highway construction, it claims to recover costs by reducing freeze prevention and accident response costs. In addition, the remaining solar energy can supply additional power to nearby homes, businesses, and even the charging stations of electric vehicles.

Road workers spread chemicals in the ice road in the winter. Anti-freezing agents lower the freezing point of water. Please explore how these chemicals dissolve ice faster than other substances and the environmental impact of using these chemicals. The two common deicers used are sodium chloride and calcium chloride. Vegetation around the road and water may be affected by these chemical substances. These chemicals can also damage concrete, steel structure and car and accelerate corrosion. Other manufactured chemicals like calcium magnesium acetate are expensive, but they do not harm the environment. Another technique that can be studied is to pre-moisten chemicals to reduce scattering on the road.