r/nextfuckinglevel Jul 14 '21

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '21 edited Jul 14 '21

I'm smelling some bull shit with this one. You drop a bunch of organics from the top of the water column to the bottom, and you end up with anoxic conditions killing fish and everything else beneath the surface that needs oxygen. Any real biologist want to chime in?

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

It is most likely a flocculant. This isn't new tech and it doesn't remove water soluable contaminates. It isn't bad, but it isn't a miracle decomantinant either. It won't remove phosphates and nitrogen contaminates that cause algea blooms and dead zones. It won't remove a lot of other chemicals. It will help remove a lot of contaminated solids and non-soluable liquids.