I'd give them some money if I had any.
How would the pool overwinter? Can it be left in place? Can the membranes freeze and thaw while keeping filtration standards? If it isn't left in place, how is the pool retrieved from the river and stored? I don't understand.
Besides that, it looks awesome.
Also, can the filtration go both ways? Like, I get how it might clean river water. But what would keep the interior water clean from people? How is the water changed out? Still confused.
This reminds me: I once woke up from a dream with something very important to my then-girlfriend.
"Death! Death! Death be wet!" Then I went back to sleep, conked right back out.
She was already awake, my snoring did that, so she wrote it down. "That's the most serious thing you've said in days," she said, "just the way you sad it. It was vital to tell me. I was almost flattered."
Chromium piccolinate and valerian root can be wonderful sometimes.
As for the swimming pool: what a stupid idea. Really. How would you get there? On a pontoon bridge? Heaven forbid you should touch the river, you might die of sepsis.
Some New Yorkers need to sleep more.
"During that summer we designed + Pool and launched it into the world with the main intention of building a team that could help us realize the project. We figured it might attract attention from some engineers and experts that could help us out."
I guess by "designed" they mean "thought up in barest outline".
Seems like they spent a good amount of time on the fun stuff, like a plus shape with the potential for long lanes and what the four arms could be used for.
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One thing I don't love about Kickstarter is how blithely it violates your privacy. I am pretty cautious, generally, but I didn't immediately grasp that if I donated to two projects, people would be able to see both.
Bah. I like supporting stuff like this, but I don't like any random person being able to make (likely inaccurate) guesses about my social circle or political affiliations based on whose Kickstarter project I want to fund.
8: I hadn't realized that. I was going to suggest donating anonymously, but that wouldn't work for some things. For instance, I helped kickstart a band's demo recording, with the promise of getting a copy of said record once it's pressed. Maybe the donors could elect to be known only to the members of the project?
How would the pool overwinter? Can it be left in place? Can the membranes freeze and thaw while keeping filtration standards? If it isn't left in place, how is the pool retrieved from the river and stored? I don't understand.
See, they need your money to figure that stuff out.
I like the basic concept, but they need to work on some elements - for one thing the filters will work both ways: keeping stuff out means keeping stuff in. They'll need to actively pump clean water out of the pool in order to avoid making it concentrated piss and grime from the unwashed. Not an insurmountable problem, but still.
Also 8 is an insurmountable obstacle to my making a donation.
The membrane is one thing, but I think I regular floating pool* would still be pretty neat.
* That is filled from the tap or the river using standard pool filtering technology.
Kickstarter should become a Super PAC.
They'll need to actively pump clean water out of the pool in order to avoid making it concentrated piss and grime from the unwashed.
Ooh, you could make it a pretty fountain -- jets of water going out from the pool. (I wonder if you'd need to filter it, or if the Hudson is dirty enough that just releasing swimming-pool water would be cool.
14: The chlorine is the problem not the kid piss.
We had a swim class with the kids which was cancelled on Monday due to an accident. On Tuesday we found out that "accident" meant someone took a dump, as opposed to a medical accident. But the pool was full of kids age 6 months to 7 years or so, so I imagine in any given 30 minute window, someone is taking a dump in the pool.
It's kind of amusing to me that they basically have a don't-ask-don't-tell policy about poop in the pool. "If we know, it's a giant pain, so please please just don't let us know."
Does the Hudson get tides? Is there any head in the system, for forcing water through membranes?
Yeah, it's tidal a ways up past the city. I don't know how much force you'd need, but there's noticeable current both ways.
On Tuesday we found out that "accident" meant someone took a dump, as opposed to a medical accident.
The two are often related.
17: Who needs Hudson tides? In the morning, the pool will fill up with people, pumping water out, and in the evening it will empty, pumping it back in.
"accident" meant someone took a dump
NO, I DID IT ON PURPOSE.
Somewhat related, a friend is swimming the 28.5 miles Manhatten Island Marathon Swim this weekend.
Water temp should be about 65 degrees. No wetsuits.
It's kind of amusing to me that they basically have a don't-ask-don't-tell policy about poop in the pool. "If we know, it's a giant pain, so please please just don't let us know."
Poop is a perception problem, not a real problem for a pool. Same goes for urine.
Can the membranes freeze and thaw while keeping filtration standards?
Would they need to? Do rivers in New York freeze regularly? (Honest question: I actually don't know).
If the pool is properly maintained and there isn't that much poop. People can and have gotten E. coli and other things from pools.
What I am thinking is that you could get one of these babies, solar-power it (does it even need an electricity source?), drop it in a river anywhere in the world, and get a pool of free instant unlimited drinking water for everyone.
The chlorine is the problem not the kid piss.
The river water is salty, especially in the East River. Salt water pools don't need chlorine, do they?
27: Babies do not need electricity sources.
27: There's ice floating in them sometimes, but they don't freeze more than a couple of feet out from the shore. They're brackish and pretty fast-flowing.
The water inside one of these, though, would not be flowing at all... so it might freeze a bit more readily.
Presumably you would need to take it out from time to time to scrape the crustaceans off the bottom. Those filters aren't going to work very well if they are covered in barnacles.
34: you just need a non-toxic antifouling paint. They make it out of chilli peppers - apparently capsiacins discourage barnacles just as effectively as humans.
32: yes. Or, better still, just open gates at either end and let the water flow through. No one's going to be swimming in it anyway if the water's near freezing.
you would need to take it out from time to time to scrape the crustaceans off the bottom.
Are we talking about babies here? or Anthony Wiener?
...apparently capsiacins discourage barnacles just as effectively as humans.
I keep hearing about how the kids today have so many new skills I'll never have, but I make myself care that I can't discourage a barnacle the way the Gen Y kids can.
the kids today have so many new skills I'll never have
Hey, you know who they should get to promise money for this project only to have said contributor renege? New Jersey!
Maybe they could raise funds for this by eliminating various minor websites registered to the Department of the Interior.
In other peeing-in-water news, my fair city is dumping 7.8 million gallons of drinking water because some asshole pissed in the reservoir.
The residents of your fair city are fearful twits.
Some are fearful twits; others are obsessed with purity.
Maybe they could use the water for the garden.
Does Oregon have a garden?
I understand they grow a lot of the weed.
I used to encourage people to urinate around my garden when we had a problem with critters. Worked like a charm, plus people really got into it if you gave them a couple of beers first.
I've done my part over the years to help keep critters out of public swimming pools.
By killing them first? Oops, M/tch, not Moby.