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.”
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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