Hot
days are a pain, but they make for a great time to take a dip. A pool
can beat the heat as long as the heat doesn't beat the pool first.
Where
there's water and heat, there's bound to be a drop in water levels;
pools, reservoirs, you name it. Water loss from a pool depends on the
pool size, humidity, temperature, and wind velocity. A 500
square-meter pool in 77-degree weather and 50 percent humidity may
lose 49 ml of water a second. A minute later, it may lose as much as
three liters.
When
heat comes to your backyard pool, make sure you're prepared to fight
the heat's fight. Pool covers are designed to reduce, if not
eliminate, the amount of water lost to evaporation. Pool covers in
the market can either be silicon or isopropyl alcohol-based that can
reduce the evaporation rate by up to 50 percent.
Pool
covers also work in another way: heat retention. Summers are usually
mild in the northern U.S., so a warm dip is always good. Statistics
show that 70 percent of heat from a pool is lost from evaporation,
both for indoor and outdoor pools. This results in increased cost of
heating a pool, namely installing a heating system that can cost
thousands.
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