Addatives
 

I have a water cooling kit running with some innovatec's cooling adative. I am happy with it at the moment but someone told me that it doesnt kill algae and that algae can still grow in my kit. He recomended that i used some asetec anti algae stuff. This was fine untill someone else saud that you should not mix the two together and that the innovatec addative should do the job fine. So now I am in a dilemma, do I or do I not use the anti algae. Any one know anything that might help...

Smithsonian Institute: "Algae are photosynthetic organisms that occur in most habitats, ranging from marine and freshwater to desert sands and from hot boiling springs to snow and ice. They vary from small, single-celled forms to complex multicellular forms, such as the giant kelps..."

Algae grows in most any environment, but is photosynthetic. Flood clear water-filled tubing with light, you have the perfect algae farm. Kill the light, algae can't possibly survive.

Also, using boiled water is a proven (think canned foods) strategy for preservation.

Ok thanks. DO you think the two will be ok to mix then?

As far as I know, distilled water kills a lot of algae due to osmotic pressures inside the bacteria itself. Adding water wetter or antifreeze boosts this effect and makes your system more effective (less bubbles/quicker bleeding of air, galvanic corrosion reduced and water wetter actually allows water to absorb more energy per oC as far as I know (only a bit tho)).





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