Comments on: Explained: How 96 Million Black Plastic Shade Balls Are Saving L.A. From Drought

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 23 Aug 2015 19:05:28 +0000

you people should read it again. YOUR MISSING THE FACTS. I think this is a very inovative way to help to save the water. These balls could probably be made from Recycled plastics.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 23 Aug 2015 18:58:37 +0000

As it explained in the artical: Black is the only UV restisant color. White would be suseptical to UV.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 23 Aug 2015 03:32:48 +0000

nice work

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 23 Aug 2015 03:22:59 +0000

It's explained in the info graphic, coloring of the polyethylene requires chemicals which will eventually get released into the water. Also the black keeps sunlight from getting through causing algae growth which is amother no-no.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 23 Aug 2015 02:33:36 +0000

Thanks for Saving the planet.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 23 Aug 2015 00:26:49 +0000

Who knows, they probably tried that to see if it white would work better. I guess they would've had to tested different surfaces for the balls, whether glossy, opaque, translucent, matte, jagged.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 23 Aug 2015 00:02:32 +0000

Why black and not white if they wanted to keep the temperature down, black balls get hot and white would remain cool.