Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Bring the Land Speed Mark back to Utah with the North Arm Salt Flats

   Comes a story about how Union Pacific's rail line through the Great Salt Lake has isolated the north part of the lake, trapping the salt in and making a large plate of salt. The Deseret News article suggests it might be one of the largest man-made objects on earth.
   Now, wait up, on this one. You mean we have another salt flats? If it is hundreds of square miles, it would seem it must have a longer stretch than does the Bonneville Salt Flats. Is it dry, sometimes, or does water continually cover it? Is the remodel job Union Pacific started on Sunday going to take away some of the saltiness? Sounds like it will. Should we be doing that? Or should we be doing just the opposite, and looking to enable a new salt flats? Bonneville was once the fastest place on earth, but the shortness of the course became a limiting factor when speeds became so fast they were hard to achieve in the short 13-mile or so stretch there. Maybe, we could bring the record back to Utah if we developed the North Arm Salt Flats.

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