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.

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/

.. 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

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.

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.

Definitely wouldn't work in the water

Wait, I'm American and must have missed this. They painted a fucking flag in the bottom of it?

Guess they'd better host a few more super spreader parties and find out

12% hydrogen peroxide is far from weak. And it’s often used to shock pools and cleaning up organic matter.

I think we found the pool owner.

Not really. I guess they may have lowered the bar for that phrase, though.

Besides the concrete cracks, the Reflecting Pool needed new pipes to the filtration and distribution building (the wrong ones were installed and ground settling cracked them, they’re leeching water into the soil). They also needed to waterproof the expansion joints which, although temporary sealed by the liner they installed, will eventually leak again when the liner rips due to further settlement.

Once again, Trump puts lipstick on a pig and kicks the problem down the road so he can look good until he’s gone.

100% certain they do not care.

Yeah, algae grows in a still, dark pond in the summer heat.

Basically, Trump did a seventh grade science fair experiment with a $14 million budget.

This article specifies the use of both 12% hydrogen peroxide and calcium hypochlorite powder. Hope they turned off the ozone generator too.

The term “Bleach” is ambiguous and mostly describes a result rather than a specific chemical.

Sure, when used a verb...

When someone "bleached their hair" they used hydrogen peroxide, because that would achieve a bleaching effect

However the headline uses it as noun "dumps bleach in pool". And I'm pretty sure that's not correct.

The article says hydrogen peroxide, but headlines are often written by someone else and I think that's where the confusion came from.

It would be hilarious, ironically, if they ended up making chlorine gas because they just poured in whatever they thought would fix it.

Hey thanks! That makes sense

While the DC MAGAs are all having a big fundraising event with all the Sociopathic Oligarchs, gathered around the pond.

prttt

'This stuff cured my cousin of AIDS!'

squeezes the rest of the tube of Ivermectin into the pool

Watch out, his supporters will start calling it "Arc de Trump" non-ironically.

Trump can't count that high.

I hear ground up MAGA bones work best.

Well, I didn't really hear that, but I think we should try it out anyway, just to make sure.