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Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it.
People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19
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RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter
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I don't think there's any chemical attack here, it's just that peroxide's getting under the polyurea sheet, where metals in the concrete will catalyze breakdown into H2O and O2 gas. The pressure lifts and breaks up the poorly attached membrane.
Helps that they're pouring concentrate at edges.
Peroxide famously fizzes on contact with bio stuff; much of this is done by an enzyme called catalase that microbes produce in abundance.
I don't think the problematic O2 production is from organisms at this point; we're not close to the steady state biomass our new Lincoln Bioreactor will produce.
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One of the world's most tightly controlled experimental evolution projects is underway in DC, and I hope someone has had the foresight to collect a time series of algal samples.
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Turn the reflecting pool into world's largest ball pit
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The scum pond is delaminating well ahead of schedule. This is a good hypothesis for why.
They're dumping peroxide in at the edges, where the polyurea attachment will be patchy thanks to shrinkage during curing. O2 will be produced at the concrete surface, mechanically lifting the membrane.
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Clips are going viral of the new $14M paint on the Reflecting Pool peeling off just 12 days after the pool reopened.
