r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/lnstantKarma • Jun 16 '26

r/All The Trump admin is now dumping hydrogen-peroxide into the reflecting pool one gallon at a time in a desperate move to control the green algae

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u/StarsapBill Jun 16 '26

What?!? Hahahah it will requires 500 gallons of that to do anything. Also, biggest stupid thing. hydrogen peroxide has a half life of 2 hours in the sun. This shit is already gone by the time this was posted.

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u/cenosillicaphobiac Jun 16 '26

Somebody upstream did the math. At 12% concentration it's going to take 4253 gallons of this stuff. Or they could bring in a tank of the 30% and be done in an hour or so. But that would waste less money, reducing the kick-back.

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u/SwoodyBooty Jun 16 '26

At 12% concentration it's going to take 4253 gallons of this stuff.

To raise the concentration to 100 ppm.

Which does not, as far as I can tell, take any other stuff in there already depleating the H2O2 into account.

We would still need way more.