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A +Pool in the East River

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Re: A +Pool in the East River

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Post by Zikes »

Echo117 wrote: post #9
FatalLogic wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/694835844/pool-a-floati...

That was the first Kickstarter. The most recent one (and the one described in the story regarding $300k raised, etc.), is here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/694835844/pool-tile-by-...

It looks like the first Kickstarter was to find and test an adequate filtration system, and the second is to build a "float lab" test pool. If that succeeds they'll probably have to launch yet another Kickstarter asking for funding of over a million to build the final product.

Re: A +Pool in the East River

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Post by joezydeco »

oh_sigh wrote: post #6

Why not just fill it with fresh, chlorinated water? This project is never going to happen without chlorination.

Yeah, I'm confused. I'm assuming the NY Health Department will be the ones that certify the pool as usable by the public or not, right?

So this whole dashboard mess is really useless: it's a binary decision. Is the pool safe or not? I mean yeah, if you want a nifty graphic screen showing how messed up the river is then go nuts. But I'd rather not know that the water is "kinda okay" for swimming. Either it's safe or it's not.

Re: A +Pool in the East River

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Post by vampirechicken »

Zikes wrote: post #4

Off-topic, but why do traditional print companies always stubbornly insist on ignoring the fundamental differences between print and web media? All that text, and not a single link to the +Pool Kickstarter page. It doesn't even have to be in the article text itself, having it at the end would be just fine.

Because if you click out to another web site, they might lose your eyeballs, and you would not be looking at the print media company's adverts any more.

Re: A +Pool in the East River

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Post by js2 »

rayiner wrote: post #2

Foul. Just foul. > But when it rains hard—a quarter of an inch in an hour might do the trick—some four hundred sewer pipes around the city begin flushing untreated waste, using the rivers as municipal lavatories. > For the statistically inclined, the figure to watch is the number of colony-forming units (of bacteria) per hundred millilitres. Beach advisories are often set at thirty-five. > The skies opened. Grzybowsk…

Most of the time the water is safe for swimming.

http://www.nycswim.org/About/FAQ.aspx#1

Re: A +Pool in the East River

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Post by Mithaldu »

Zikes wrote: post #4

Off-topic, but why do traditional print companies always stubbornly insist on ignoring the fundamental differences between print and web media? All that text, and not a single link to the +Pool Kickstarter page. It doesn't even have to be in the article text itself, having it at the end would be just fine.

I asked the author on twitter, maybe he'll answer. :)

https://twitter.com/mithaldu/status/494940364717842434

Re: A +Pool in the East River

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Post by rsync »

This exists already in Zurich. Sort of.

There is a river (a very clean river, of course) that flows through Zurich, and there is a 200 foot or so length of the river that is buoyed/strung off to form a decent sized "pool".

You go downstream, jump in, and swim upstream. You're swimming in the actual river, just inside a marked off area with a nice deck on one side. It's really quite well done.

Here it is:

http://www.zuerich.com/en/visit/sport/lower-letten-river-poo...

Re: A +Pool in the East River

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Post by katbyte »

oh_sigh wrote: post #6

Why not just fill it with fresh, chlorinated water? This project is never going to happen without chlorination.

because its not just a floating pool, its a pool that uses the actual water of the east river and filtration.

Re: A +Pool in the East River

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Post by readerrrr »

oh_sigh wrote: post #6

Why not just fill it with fresh, chlorinated water? This project is never going to happen without chlorination.

Sure you can do that, for safety( and it is really easy ). But I think the larger goal here is to develop methods for filtration; it doesn't use electricity, machinery and uses local water.

I think this is the best example of what a project on kickstarter is supposed to be.

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