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Hosted by John Cooper · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 19 episodes
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The Pools Scientific Podcast is the only science-based pool care podcast hosted by a credentialed engineer. John Cooper — M.S. Nuclear Engineering, B.S. Chemical Engineering, U.S. Navy Nuclear Operator and submarine veteran, and five-time PHTA certified professional — breaks down pool water chemistry, the Langelier Saturation Index, salt chlorine generators, CYA management, water balance, and everything in between. Built for pool owners who want to understand their water, service professionals who want to sharpen their science, and pool company owners who want a knowledge-based competitive edge. New episode every Tuesday. PoolsScientific.com
John Cooper hosts The Pools Scientific Podcast, a science show with 19 episodes published.
A real member's pool, followed across five real water tests over nearly three months. Every single time, a retail pool store gave the same handful of generic recommendations, and every single time, the real answer was so
Ten products sit on every pool store shelf with almost no real explanation attached: borates, enzymes, non-chlorine shock, chlorine neutralizers, clarifiers, flocculants, mineral and ionizer systems, scale control, defoa
Test strips, drop titration, photometric readers, digital salt meters, TDS probes, automated monitors, even your thermometer. Every real type of pool test kit, not sponsored or promoted, explained with the honest pros an
A health inspector failed a pool that had nothing wrong with it, for having too much chlorine. What actually happened next traces back through a hundred years of pool chlorine history, a cyanuric acid relationship most c
Every pool runs on the same hydraulic loop, suction, pump, filter, and returns, and almost nobody who owns one has ever had it explained. John Cooper walks through the real physics behind pump cavitation, why turning a p
Your pool can test high on free chlorine and still turn green. This episode walks through the full life cycle of a pool algae bloom, how it stays dormant for weeks, why it seems to appear overnight, and what actually hap
Shock has become the answer to every pool problem, which is the first sign nobody's actually answering the question. There's exactly one chemistry accurate definition of shocking a pool: achieving breakpoint chlorination
If your pool smells like chlorine and your eyes are stinging, you've probably heard the same explanation everybody hears: too much chlorine. That answer is backwards. In this episode, John Cooper breaks down what's actua
A short, straight answer to what the Chemist's Circle is, what it costs, and why it exists. Two personalized chemistry submissions a month, a real response within twenty four hours, written for your pool, not a general a
This week, John answers real questions from real listeners. No filler. Plus the first-ever So What? segment, and a check-in with Warren Bell, three weeks after we first told his story. Contributors to this episode: Mark
This one's different from every episode before it. Episode 10 is the origin story. All of it. A strawberry farm in Missouri. A submarine. Twenty five years of homebuilding. And a swimming pool route in Kansas City that n
The pool industry has been repeating the same rules for decades. Bigger pump. Add algaecide. Keep pH between 7.2 and 7.8. Most pool owners follow those rules without question. Most pool professionals teach them without q
Every pool professional has one. A pool that breaks the rules. The chemistry looks right. The equipment runs fine. And the water still does something it shouldn't. This episode is about what to do when the obvious answer
Every week there's a new product promising to replace pool chemistry with something simpler. One pod. One scoop. One treatment. The testimonials say it worked. The price says it's worth trying. This episode is not about
You add acid. pH comes back up. You add more. Eventually you grab the whole jug. Then you pull up the next morning and the liner is wrinkled — across the walls and floor in that specific way that only happens one way. Th
"My pool guy is full of crap." It shows up in forums, in Facebook groups, in Reddit threads. And sometimes? They're not wrong. But most of the time the pool guy isn't the problem. The problem is what he was handed before
Salt chlorine generators are, in my professional opinion, the best residential pool chlorination method available today. I recommend them. My company installs them. And they fail constantly. Not because the technology is
There is one calculation that determines whether your pool water is slowly destroying your equipment, etching your plaster, or quietly depositing scale on every surface it touches. Most pool owners have never heard of it
Your test strip shows chlorine. The water looks clear. But is your chlorine actually working? In this episode, chemical and nuclear engineer John Cooper breaks down the relationship between cyanuric acid (CYA) and free c
John got a call from another pool guy who was in way over his head. What he found when he walked into that equipment room is the single best argument for why pool care needs to be treated as a science — not a trade skill
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