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+Pool Would Let New Yorkers Go River Swimming

Posted by samzenpus on from the now-90%-body-free dept.

cylonlover writes "Three young entrepreneurs have proposed a way of getting New Yorkers into the Hudson, East and/or Bronx Rivers. It's called the +Pool (Plus Pool) — a public swimming pool that would float in the river, allowing people to swim in filtered river water. River water would flow into the pool through permeable walls, which would be composed of three layers filtering out the river nasties."

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  1. Three layers are not enough... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...to filter out the New Yorkers.

    Still too nasty for me.

  2. Re:Cautious optimism! by SockPuppetOfTheWeek · · Score: 5, Funny

    Swimming pools are a toxic soup of deadly chemicals like Chlorine, Bromine, Cyanuric Acid, Sodium Bisulphate and Sodium Carbonate.

    Straight from Wikipedia:

    Sodium carbonate is a food additive (E500) used as an acidity regulator, anti-caking agent, raising agent and stabilizer. It is one of the components of kansui, a solution of alkaline salts used to give ramen noodles their characteristic flavor and texture.[5][6] Sodium carbonate is also used in the production of sherbet powder. The cooling and fizzing sensation results from the endothermic reaction between sodium carbonate and a weak acid, commonly citric acid, releasing carbon dioxide gas, which occurs when the sherbet is moistened by saliva.

    You know what? I'm not even going to bother looking up the rest of those chemical compounds.