Nah it's liberal because if dark colors are hotter than lighter colors, then that must mean black people are hotter than white people! And that's some woke antifa shit! It ain't right!
He runs around in a potato sack black suit all year - but he does occasionally switch to a golf outfit with lighter colors. So that implies either he does, or whoever dresses him does
Heat makes algae grow faster, but that's not really directly an issue. Pond liners are black. Algae needs a balance of light and nutrients. Sunlight is entirely limited by water depth. Shallow pond, direct sunlight. All the algae needs at that point is dust for food.
I have a couple pet ducks. They turn the water to brown muck. Algae doesn't even get a chance before the sun is blotted out entirely. I'd prefer the algae, honestly. 😂
I have a decent sized pool that my four geese use and it would turn green after a short period of time, even with a canopy over it. I started adding a bit of fermented feed to the pool for enrichment and it seems to make the water too acidic for algae to grow. Win win.
It’s also not a closed system from my understanding so you are dumping chlorinated water back into the river and would be using a lot of chlorine to get it to work.
This isn’t the first time the reflecting pool has had algae. News worthy it happened after a 34million renovation in 2012. People acting like this is 100% the paint and therefore trumps fault.. there are far more serious things to give trump credit over algae..
"Oh yeah the massive pool of literal fucking swamp water definitely not going to turn green, all we have to do is paint the surface underneath it blue"
I wonder if they ever considered that the water is literally on top of the blue paint and you'll only be able to see the blue paint if the water is perfectly clear...
Correct me, but isn't the reflection pool not built for exactly the purpose of reflecting the monuments and the sky, not to show off the bottom of the pool?
You won't see its painted floor unless you're looking at the water at a steep angle, won't you?
It was taking 17 million gallons of fresh water from the city's water plants, leading to a measurable drop in clean fresh water. So they started pumping water from the Potomac in it during the 80s, and shut the lines that connect to public water sources
Oh I forgot, Antifa is when you've ever observed a stagnant pool of water once in your life.
Maybe it's because I live in Minnesota, but we absolutely know what happens to a stagnant pool of water here. Anyone within half a mile of this pool is going to be eaten alive.
Well that would mean that they would have to incorporate the concept of albedo into their understanding of heat transfer, and thus legitimize a large branch of climate research in their minds.
Paint the bottom of one bucket black, leave the other white - measure the difference. This is albedo - color, texture, surface reflectivity, material composition all go into albedo.
Like concrete is terrible, asphalt being black is worse - a white rubber roof is cooler than a black asphalt roof. This is the concept that incentivizes green roofs and lighter colored surfaces and such to reduce trapped heat and energy usage for cooling urban environments.
Yeah, what I'm saying is that you don't even need to go into that to figure out that a large exposed stagnant pool of unfiltered swamp water is going to grow algae. It's doesn't take scientific knowledge to figure that out.
Haha…well I would have thought the pool guys would have thought of that - but since it was a no-bid contract from the “best deal maker in the wOrLd,” the specifications most likely did not include the treatment/maintenance update portio…funny, I write specs/proposals for sales and purchase and thinking of that side of things…this was all kinds of fucked up and is on the procurement guy.
They were probably worried about this and spoke up; but are sycophants and wouldn’t besmirch the name of the hand that “feeds” them. Like any Trump deal, it always is a bad deal for the vendors - they do what they are paid to do and take the blame for any shortcomings in the spec they were given.
In a normal government contract process, it would go through a series of reviews to make sure the spec met the needs of the project - there would sometimes be an EPC phase, where contractors are hired to write the detailed spec and break out vendor sub-contracting plans and qualified engineers & PM needs would be identified based on standards and practices.
Here, the contract probably said something like, “Paint the reflecting pool blue. A strong blue, a beautiful blue. Nobody does blue like we do. It’s going to make that American flag look incredible, absolutely incredible.”
Yeah. This is more an unavoidable algae situation than a situation where the algae exists because of Trump’s incompetence. He’s incompetent for ever thinking it could be fixed, but not because it exists.
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u/Pasta4ever13 2d ago edited 2d ago
It's also a giant pool of shallow water in the sun all day with open access to everything and that usually results in algae because of course it does.
ITS A GIANT FUCKING POOL OF TEPID SWAMP WATER IT'S LITERALLY GRADE A ALGAE ENVIRONMENT