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I appreciate the fact they didn’t measure how much they need, they just went to the pool store and bought a bunch of residential sized containers.
well, they fired anyone that would have given a damn, or would know the chemistry and calculations. so what they gonna do? it's not like this administration knows how to choose or hire knowledgeable, experienced, competent, and qualified persons. why didn't they just hire another 'pool boy' to 'fix' it at a cost of $50 million for the 'rush' job? (less, of course, whatever gets kicked back under the potty chair).
I could have done the job for a measly $9m. The problem is getting the rarer american anniversary chlorine, but I'll eat the cost. Like I said, I'll do it for the low low price of $20m.
You're not understanding. YOU don't get that money, Trump does. You get just enough to do the bare minimum, and he'll probably stiff you on that.
Art of the Deal
Oh my god it’s so much worse than I thought.
They’re using 1/3 the effective concentration of hydrogen peroxide and pouring it in with regular sized bottles. You need 35% and they’re using 12%.
This Reddit (spits on ground) thread has someone who did the math
https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/comments/1u7dgv5/request_how_many_gallons_of_hydrogen_peroxide_do/
What's another couple of thousands on retail products when you've already wasted 14.2 million.
...and then charged the Federal government another $100k.
.. and placed a stunningly accurate bet on Polymarket about the size of the contract
To cover $1000 worth of materials. The rest went to...the Uber ride
Does this work like not using enough antibiotics and it will actually make the algae stronger?
I don’t think algae can evolve bleach resistance.
Bleach basically tears apart the molecules inside the cells and destroys the proteins they need to function. Antibiotics usually exploit some specific weakness in bacteria to kill them, which can be evolved around.
If you don’t use bleach enough it’ll kill the outer layers like a film and leave harder to treat algae to dominate, but the algae can’t overcome the effects of bleach. Chlorine is smaller than cellular molecules, so it’ll always permeate.
At that point they’ll need to physically scrub the whole thing or massively increase the concentration to shock it.
Source: had a pool as a kid, when we would go on vacation we’d come back to it being green. The basic chlorine wouldn’t cut it and we’d need to buy pool shock, which was just more concentrated chlorine to kill the floating stuff, then we’d have to scrub and vacuum the algae from the surfaces.
Edit: I just checked Wikipedia, they’re using 12% hydrogen peroxide. Apparently that breaks down quickly in the sun though, so it’s unlikely to do anything for the majority of the algae.
According to pool websites you need a 35% concentration, so this is going to do nothing at all at this concentration.
So basically, an actual treatment would need literal tons of peroxide applied repeatedly. The dinky bottles they’re pouring in by hand won’t do shit.
It also is known to form a film, so it won’t kill algae without scrubbing, which they’re using army rangers to do... but even though they’re scrubbing it’s still not enough concentration to kill algae and bacteria.
It’s an either make work program or complete incompetence by a pool company that’s only worked on pools with pumps and filters. Or both.
Funny thing is, the reflecting pool has pumps and filters, they're just in disrepair (along with a bunch of other infrastructure-level stuff). Instead of actually addressing the root cause of the issue, Trump decided to give it the ol landlord special and slap a coat of paint on it.
It’s probably going to mess with the Ph and damage the pool pumps and etch the brand new “millions” of dollars of paint.
Too much %HOCl, and you make the water too acidic and hurt pumps and metal in the system.
Apparently they’re using peroxide not chlorine
But peroxide breaks down in water and sun, so they’ll need a lot of it.
Apparently they added a bubbler, but who knows if that’ll work.
Chlorine also is degraded by UV, which is why pools usually maintain some level of CYA which acts as a stabilizer to a certain degree. CYA is naturally present in granulated chlorine (dichlor) but not in liquid chlorine (bleach), which is why the "dichlor to bleach" method starts with dichlor for a while to built a reserve of CYA, before switching to bleach. Too much CYA decreases the effectiveness of chlorine, so keeping it around 30 ppm is optimal.
Writing this got me wondering what the fine folks at TroubleFreePool think about this whole debacle... https://www.troublefreepool.com/threads/lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool.325291/
Lol
Pfft, you'd probably measure it in metric, you COMMIE.