Comments on: Let’s just ignore the other problems http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/03/25/lets-just-ignore-the-other-problems/ Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:48:02 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: tomc http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/03/25/lets-just-ignore-the-other-problems/comment-page-1/#comment-21594 tomc Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:38:58 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/03/25/lets-just-ignore-the-other-problems/#comment-21594 You know you can fix this all by yourself probably. How deep is the lake ? The problem is that the increased relative weight of the water is preventing it from absorbing oxygen, which kills the animals that feed on the algae, thereby causing an algae explosion. It's true that nitrogen is causing a lot of this. BUT. There's a simple solution that doesn't involve filtering the water or stopping caring for the lawns. Just blow air into the lake. You will be surprised just how much difference even a single pump pumping just normal environmental air into the water makes. If the lake is small enough a single pump may actually be sufficient to kill algae. Now this won't work in 2 hours. But after 2 weeks of pumping you should start seeing the difference. Perhaps this would be a great job for the city council to do. Just tie a long garden hose to something heavy (make it really heavy, there's going to be several dozen litres of air that has to be kept on the bottom of the lake by it). Connect an air pump to it, and pump. Extra advantage : this won't kill the algae, it'll just encourage it's competitors in the lake itself. Therefore the algae won't dissappear, and continue to be a food source for the lake's fish. You know you can fix this all by yourself probably. How deep is the lake ?

The problem is that the increased relative weight of the water is preventing it from absorbing oxygen, which kills the animals that feed on the algae, thereby causing an algae explosion. It’s true that nitrogen is causing a lot of this.

BUT. There’s a simple solution that doesn’t involve filtering the water or stopping caring for the lawns.

Just blow air into the lake. You will be surprised just how much difference even a single pump pumping just normal environmental air into the water makes. If the lake is small enough a single pump may actually be sufficient to kill algae.

Now this won’t work in 2 hours. But after 2 weeks of pumping you should start seeing the difference. Perhaps this would be a great job for the city council to do.

Just tie a long garden hose to something heavy (make it really heavy, there’s going to be several dozen litres of air that has to be kept on the bottom of the lake by it). Connect an air pump to it, and pump.

Extra advantage : this won’t kill the algae, it’ll just encourage it’s competitors in the lake itself. Therefore the algae won’t dissappear, and continue to be a food source for the lake’s fish.

]]> By: Ymarsakar http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/03/25/lets-just-ignore-the-other-problems/comment-page-1/#comment-21586 Ymarsakar Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:25:29 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/03/25/lets-just-ignore-the-other-problems/#comment-21586 My memory is fuzzy so I didn't want to claim a post to Neo when in fact it may have been your post that I was remembering from the past. My memory is fuzzy so I didn’t want to claim a post to Neo when in fact it may have been your post that I was remembering from the past.

]]> By: Bookworm http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/03/25/lets-just-ignore-the-other-problems/comment-page-1/#comment-21584 Bookworm Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:07:28 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/03/25/lets-just-ignore-the-other-problems/#comment-21584 I wouldn't be surprised, Y. As you've pointed out, she and I periodically overlap. I don't read her blog as regularly as I should and would like to, given how interesting her points are and how lovely her writing, so you would probably know better than I do about a Tahoe post from neo. I wouldn’t be surprised, Y. As you’ve pointed out, she and I periodically overlap. I don’t read her blog as regularly as I should and would like to, given how interesting her points are and how lovely her writing, so you would probably know better than I do about a Tahoe post from neo.

]]> By: Ymarsakar http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/03/25/lets-just-ignore-the-other-problems/comment-page-1/#comment-21583 Ymarsakar Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:05:31 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/03/25/lets-just-ignore-the-other-problems/#comment-21583 clear water lakes are pretty sterile in terms of life content or diversity. When environmentalists say that global warming is causing a lake to be unclear, it must be because diversity of life is inconvenient to their political ideology. Btw, Book, didn't Neo write about the same subject concerning Tahoe awhile ago? clear water lakes are pretty sterile in terms of life content or diversity. When environmentalists say that global warming is causing a lake to be unclear, it must be because diversity of life is inconvenient to their political ideology.

Btw, Book, didn’t Neo write about the same subject concerning Tahoe awhile ago?

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