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Update #10: Quick Spring Update
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Posted on March 12
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Update #9: Update #9: Test #1
+ POOOOOOOOOL!
Apologies for the lag in updates in the last few months. We've been getting our hands dirty (literally, with water that isn't, say, Poland Springs) down by the river.
After our Kickstarter campaign ended, we put all of your donations to use by spending a month testing the Primary Filtration at the East River. We looked at 6 different membranes in collaboration from Gunderboom and analyzed them across 16 different parameters with the help of professors and researchers at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University. In short, we spent four weeks in our own + Pool Science Lab in a trailer on the shore of the river. We tested for things like turbidity, color, fecal coliforms, suspended solids, etc. We got very good at incubating poop.
And the results were great. The membranes performed as well if not better than expected in some cases and provided a great base to move into the next filtration layer. It'd be a lie to say that filtration is solved, cause it's not. In fact we still have PLENTY of work to do and right now we're starting to plan out Test#2, which we hope to do in February.
Here's some pictures from Test#1:
Test#1 tested Layer#1, which seems to make sense.
Mr. Wesley LeForce setting up the tank, pre-filter, murky river water.
Filtration membranes were slotted into the tank and river water was fed in on the right, slowly getting cleaner as it moved to through the membranes to the left.
Some of the membranes we tested and a dirty, empty tank.
Different water types, not for resale.
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Update #8: Koozin' / Address Clarification
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Posted on August 6, 2011
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Update #7: Koozin'
Hi All,
Just a quick note that the incentives have finally started showing up at the office and we'll be shipping them out to ya'lls soon.
Most everyone has kindly replied to the request for delivery address that was sent out a couple weeks ago, but if you haven't, do an email search for 'kickstarter response needed!' and tell us where to send your goods!
Thanks!
Dong, Jeff, Archie and the + Pool Team
Update #6: Kickstarter's Payment Schedule
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Posted on July 18, 2011
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This project successfully raised its funding goal on July 15, 2011.
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+ POOL TANTOO SET. Basically just a bunch of stickers to stick on yourself in sunny weather and your name on the "Friends of the Pool" donor list. (Please add $5 for international shipping)
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+ POOL TOTE BAG. For totin' around all your Pool goods including everything above and your name on the "Best Friends Forever of the Pool" donor list. (Please add $20 for shipping to Canada or Mexico, $45 for other international places.)
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+ POOL PARTNER. A poolside lounge chair adorned with a plaque engraved with your name, as well as everything above and your name on the "Partners of the Pool" donor list.
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+Pool is one of a couple of initiatives that Family and PlayLab have collaborated on. Family is the office of Dong-Ping Wong that focuses on more productive types of building. PlayLab is the multidisciplinary studio of artists and designers Archie Lee Coates IV and Jeffrey Franklin that focuses on bringing ideas to life.
Thanks for letting us now how it's coming along. Good luck with the next stage of testing in the New Year!
Keep up the good work!
Wow!! You guys are hard-core. Keep up the great work! It'll all be worth it; this is truly revolutionary, both in the process, and the end result... go go go!