Maintaining low chlorine with copper ionization system?

[Mermaid Mama]

This statement is 100% misleading. It would be better stated as: Anything is an effective sanitizer when used with chlorine. Bubble gum is an effective sanitizer when used with chlorine.

Copper does not kill bacteria, viruses or pathogens capable of person to person disease transmission. Which is why copper is not an approved sanitizer for use in swimming pools by the CDC. Any pool filtration systems with copper is required by law to state that it must be used with chlorine to keep the pool sanitary. So, why not just use chlorine and skip the hassles of copper?

The only problem with using copper in your pool is green dogs, hair, fingernails and staining of the pool surface. Otherwise, it is fine to use and it does do a pretty good job of killing algae. But, again, so does chlorine.

Old post but what he is saying about Copper is patently false. Copper is killing legionnaires and staph where chlorine can’t. All you have to do is Google “Copper Silver Ionization”.

The EPA says it’s safe to drink 1.3 ppm of ionized copper water.

This isn’t new technology, it was developed by NASA in 1960 so they could clean water in space and chlorine wasn’t used at all. Most people aren’t using them right because too much chlorine causes the molecules to oxidize. Copper ions aren’t green until they oxidize. If you buy a bottle of Colloidal Copper even at 10 ppm it’s perfectly clear.

Another correction from another poster, our bodies make H2O2 and Ozone to fight infection not bleach.

Also we absorb 8 times more bleach through our skin then if we drank the same amount of water.

This link is a press release from American Society of Microbiology from 2019 says “A new study has found that copper hospital beds in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) harbored an average of 95 percent fewer bacteria than conventional hospital beds, and maintained these low-risk levels throughout patients’ stay in hospital.”

They want more copper in hospitals to reduce rates of infection.

These ionizers can work when used correctly. There is tons and tons of PubMed research supporting all of this.

Copper Hospital Beds Kill Bacteria, Save Lives

 

[Donldson]

Spas are not hospital beds, and the more you shove that same article down our throats while necrobumping long-dead threads the more you prove you have nothing worth sharing but think if you talk long enough people suddenly accept your false statements.

We won't.

If your entire thesis is based on "beds made of copper thread help reduce bacterial count so pools with 1 molecule of copper per million molecules are sanitary!" then your thesis is based on massive ignorance. If want to be taken seriously you probably should go to some anti-chlorine forum where you will be lauded as a hero I'm sure. If all you can muster here is logging in every few days, offering nothing but tangentially related materials to your theory, finding old threads you can thrust this ignorance upon, and insulting people who know far more about this subject than yourself: then I propose your actions are that of a troll and not someone worth listening to.

 

[needsajet]

This isn’t new technology, it was developed by NASA in 1960

It was actually developed by the Romans a couple thousand years ago, but no need to quibble. It's still hopelessly wrong for swimming pools.

 

[AUSpool]

Also we absorb 8 times more bleach through our skin then if we drank the same amount of water.

Where does that come from? Our skin is very good at keeping things out that it doesn’t want and keeping things in that it does want, that’s its job. Like magnesium, export across the skin is limited to diffusion via hair folicals.

Another correction from another poster, our bodies make H2O2 and Ozone to fight infection not bleach.

Don’t know about ozone but hypochlorous acid is a biological molecule too.

 

[Newdude]

Use fire instead to boil the spa. It's equally as misguided for the application but at least it will work for sanitization. And bonus points for chemical free.