If I wanted a pool but I didn't want to chlorinate it regularly could I just dump shittons of salt into it to turn it into brine, would that prevent anything from growing in it? How much salinity would it take?

>>2921933 (OP)
You'd need 8 metric tons of that shit to even get close to the level of salinity needed to stop any bacterial or algae growth.

Even then, water would sting like hell, it's cause massive corrosion to your pipes/pumps/skimmers.

What's stopping me from (somehow) acquiring a gas cylinder of pure chlorine gas and using that to chlorinate my pool? I hear gas chlorine is the cheapest form of chlorine and I can envision some neat ideas for a gas-fed system. Is it uneconomical because of regulation shit or is it really that insanely dangerous?

You could buy a cheap saltwater system with Electrocatalytic Oxidation. It will produce chlorine naturally from your very lightly salted pool water.

>>2921940
Sounds like a great way to commit war crimes on yourself and your family desu

>>2921933 (OP)
Definitely doable, some public swimming baths use salt instead of chlorine. It probably takes a shit-ton of salt, not sure how long you can keep the same batch of salt for.

>>2921987
They use salt generators, they don't just dump tons of salt rock into the pool.

>>2921933 (OP)
The jew fears the home brine shrimp farmer

>>2921933 (OP)
i wonder what regularly dragging a copper net through the water and solar powered bubblers would do it.

>>2922076
>salt generators
I don't understand, what do they make salt from?

>>2921933 (OP)
dude that exists already, they are called saline chlorinators. That's what I have. You have to have a concentration between 5 and 6 g/L of salt and it the chlorinator will do the rest. An acidity probe also is recommended

>>2921933 (OP)
Yes. It takes a lot of salt, but salt is cheap.

>>2922148
chlorine gas and slabs of sodium metal.

>>2922186
Yeah you're gonna be fighting high ph as a rule in those systems

>>2921933 (OP)
pool accessory companies are such scam artists, A saltwater chlorinator is just $200 for a premade Ruthenium-Iridium coated Titanium electrode and a $10 power supply off ali express shoved inside a $3 section of PVC which gets marked up to $1800. Just build one yourself if you have even a minor amount of tinkering abilities.

>>2921940
only do this if you have an indoor pool please

>>2921970
bonus points you also get hydrogen gas and sodium/potassium hydroxide, although you need to make your own cell or get one specifically for the chlor-alkali industry since pool focused ones just dump all of the byproducts straight into the pool instead of splitting them off.

>>2921978
>>2922257
Wouldn’t it be safer with an outdoor pool since it would disperse? Is it truly this dangerous? I work with gas cylinders (though in much lower concentrations) and there hasn’t been much incident other than a problem with a really old corroded regulator. I would probably keep it outside in a cage where nothing could impact or tip it other than a hurricane throwing my neighbor’s tree into it or some other ridiculous catastrophe. What is the most common serious mistake people make with this kind of equipment?

>>2921970
>>2922186
>>2922254
There's a difference between using large amounts of salt to kill microorganisms, and in using smaller amounts of salt with a little machine to turn that chloride into chlorine. If you read the OP, he specifically said that using the brine to prevent anything from growing in his pool was the aim and the core of the question.
Though knowing that such chloride-to-chlorine systems exist would definitely be handy for OP to know, from a cost and convenience point of view.

>$200 for a premade Ruthenium-Iridium coated Titanium electrode
Not bad, those would be good for diy chlorate cells. Or regenerating FeCl etchant. Or should I buy glassy carbon, or even BDD?

>>2922250
I have a salt pool. The high ph gets sorted with a ph probe and an acid dripper, it works like a charm

Just get a natural swimming pool. Plants filter the water and keep algae in check. The water will never be crystal clear, but if you want artificially clean water, then chlorination is your only option.

>>2922373
For a barebones setup it can't be beat