Comment box Scope: summary, information Tone: neutral Opinion: none Sarcasm/humor: none A video about Wyoming “snow fences,” which are 50%-permeable wooden fences to break up airborne snow carried...
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Scope: summary, information
Tone: neutral
Opinion: none
Sarcasm/humor: none
A video about Wyoming “snow fences,” which are 50%-permeable wooden fences to break up airborne snow carried by prevailing winds and “store” the snow as frozen drifts.
This significantly reduces roadway snow plowing costs, on the order of a $1 investment and $1000 saving (apparently). Reduced plowing reduces municipal vehicle use, which reduces tax burdens for citizens, and saves fuel. Less fuel burned is an environmental and health benefit and also reduces lifetime medical costs.
This is such a simple process and yet so impactful in an environment like Wyoming, which has large and windy open expanses.
I think a lot of the same effects can be gained by planting trees where they were cut down for cattle. The video says that they do that where possible, but that’s seemingly harder or more expensive than building fences.
The fences have gaps in them to allow for wildlife and personnel crossings. Local landowners generally like the fences because the snowdrifts can help cattle fields become more verdant in the springtime.
I wonder what similar inventions could improve conditions in urban areas.
Comment box
A video about Wyoming “snow fences,” which are 50%-permeable wooden fences to break up airborne snow carried by prevailing winds and “store” the snow as frozen drifts.
This significantly reduces roadway snow plowing costs, on the order of a $1 investment and $1000 saving (apparently). Reduced plowing reduces municipal vehicle use, which reduces tax burdens for citizens, and saves fuel. Less fuel burned is an environmental and health benefit and also reduces lifetime medical costs.
This is such a simple process and yet so impactful in an environment like Wyoming, which has large and windy open expanses.
I think a lot of the same effects can be gained by planting trees where they were cut down for cattle. The video says that they do that where possible, but that’s seemingly harder or more expensive than building fences.
The fences have gaps in them to allow for wildlife and personnel crossings. Local landowners generally like the fences because the snowdrifts can help cattle fields become more verdant in the springtime.
I wonder what similar inventions could improve conditions in urban areas.