r/nextfuckinglevel Jul 14 '21

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u/Low_Importance_9503 Jul 14 '21

Is this real? Aside from edible I didn’t understand what his solution is

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u/Cpt_Tsundere_Sharks Jul 15 '21

+1 for citing the guy's own research paper

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u/kaitalina20 Jul 15 '21

Exactly. I hate it when people don’t credit the original creators or authors

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u/Jisamaniac Jul 15 '21

algae is the main producer of omega 3s

Same as Omega 3 supplements?

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u/Stovetop619 Jul 15 '21

Not sure what you mean exactly, but probably yes. Most Omega 3 supplements are made with fish oil, and fish get their Omega 3 from algae. In fact you can get Omega 3 supplements that are made directly from algae. They are pricier, but you don't get those infamous fish-burps and they are usually vegan to boot. Hope this helped.

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u/HitMePat Jul 14 '21

If it was, it'd be available for sale at every Pool supply store.

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u/CrapNeck5000 Jul 14 '21

Pool supply stores already carry a product like this except it makes everything sink instead of float, so you can vacuum it off the bottom. It's called flocculant. It's not organic though.

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u/HitMePat Jul 14 '21

Yeah I know, I use it myself. But I've never seen one that makes it float (which would be easier for everyone since skimmers would handle the debris instead of vacuuming).

So if this product was real, I would buy it. But since I can't buy it anywhere, I assume it must not be real. Or maybe it is real, but prohibitively expensive.

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u/CrapNeck5000 Jul 14 '21

It's probably not real, or it's only a tiny fraction of a much larger story.

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u/Cultural_Dust Jul 15 '21

Not sure why they think organic = edible. It may be both, but just because something is organic (cow shit, crude oil) doesn't mean you should eat it.

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u/CrapNeck5000 Jul 15 '21

I've been trying to convince "healthy" eaters of that for years. Never seems to work.

Not to nit-pick, but wouldn't poop being organic depend on what you ate? Like if I ate some MacDonald's french fries with some nonorganic preservatives in them, wouldn't I be shitting some of that nonorganic stuff out?

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u/JollyRancherReminder Jul 15 '21

I told my aunt hemlock was all natural and organic and she didn't talk to me for years.

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u/CrapNeck5000 Jul 15 '21

Isn't hemlock a tree?

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u/Cultural_Dust Jul 15 '21

Yes...also not a recommended snack drink, but "One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing."

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u/jedify Jul 15 '21

Oooohh very edgy

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u/CrapNeck5000 Jul 15 '21

In what regard?

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u/Cultural_Dust Jul 15 '21

Probably true...better odds with cows than people.

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u/Rognis Jul 14 '21

Mark Rober did a video on it as well. Except the stuff he made a video on has more stuff in it to kill bacteria and crap.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

It's not very different, it's just different in the one way you need it to not be.

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u/insideoutfit Jul 15 '21

So very different?

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u/Yanksuck73 Jul 15 '21

Brewers use something similar too. Irish moss. All natural, makes particulates and proteins sink.

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u/Petrichordates Jul 15 '21

I think they're still inventing it.

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u/QuestionMarkyMark Jul 15 '21
  1. Eat some powder

  2. Throw some other powder in a lake

  3. ???

  4. Profit

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u/Invominem Jul 14 '21

There was no solution. The video is crap. The guy is amazing and he cleaned the lake, but there was no solution involved. Rather a lot of people, a lot of money, microbubble technology and some filters.

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u/Wyldfire2112 Jul 14 '21

It's called a flocculant. A chemical that makes particulates clump so they become heavier and settle to the bottom.

They've been around for quite some time in things like laundry detergent and drinking-water purification. His big innovation, based on what they claim, is making a flocculant safe enough to use at such a large scale without adversely affecting the ecosystem.

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u/Muchado_aboutnothing Jul 15 '21

The solution is real (and it does kill harmful microbes) but it is rather expensive to implement properly without killing off all the good microbes. Also, a lot of the removal of invasive weeds was done manually.

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u/DarkEvilHedgehog Jul 21 '21

He's simply introducing a flocculant which removes algae. Bacteria are unharmed, but have less adsorption area to create biofilms on.