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This seems like a solution to the bromate problem that in a decade or two will be looked back upon as a mistake as the balls deteriorate and leak plastics into
by javagram 7y ago
This seems like a solution to the bromate problem that in a decade or two will be looked back upon as a mistake as the balls deteriorate and leak plastics into the drinking water? https://discardstudies.com/2015/08/16/las-shade-balls-the-ecological-costs-of-plastics-in-water/ https://discardstudies.com/2015/08/16/las-shade-balls-the-ec...
Are there alternatives, like filtering and chlorinating the water on-demand rather than pretreatment and storing in a giant open air reservoir that then needs a bandaid fix like this?
- kyriakos 7y agoThe guy sounds very positive that they are safe. Too positive if you ask me.
- dTal 7y agoThat question occurred to me too. They say they last 10 years? Fantastic, that's very reasonable. What happens then? They dredge them all back out of the water and replace them? Because that sounds like a hell of a logistical problem compared to dumping them in. Your link, however, appears to persist in the misconception that their purpose is to prevent evaporation. Why is it such a common meme?
- kyriakos 7y agoConsidering their original cost taking them out of the lake shouldn't comparatively cost a lot. They are all at the surface and can be pushed to the shore and collected. The bigger problem is that they will start deteriorating and leaking plastic long before their 10 year life time. After all its plastic in under uv light and constantly changing temperature.