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Chris -- 2018-04-11
An eggcorn from my own arcane specialty: lake scumology. When an excess of nutrients get into normally clean waters, then the algae can bloom, just like flowers. So when the economy is booming, there is an increased risk of algal booms. Many instances of this phrase are undoubtedly typos, so I looked only for cases with insistent repetition.
Marine incident news:
Mr. William Winkler variously described the material he saw floating in the water from that of an algal boom (” red tide”) to that of a “chemical trans dermal neural toxin” from a red jellyfish like material. [...] An overflight of the area by Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City provided video footage of the algal boom. [...] This algal boom report said that the red material in the water “was visible as far as the eye could see.”
(http://www.incidentnews.gov/entry/503861)
Great Lake pollution:
If the organism is an alga, we call this excess growth an algal boom. Algal booms are often caused by a phenomenon called cultural eutrophication.
(http://www.ed.mtu.edu/esmis/id153.htm)
Biogas:
I have no experience in algal booms in the Baltic Sea and have not seen one. If there is an existing method where a boat goes out into an algal boom area, sucks up the water to filter off the algae, then you have no problems
(http://groups.google.com/group/iobb-ibs … 2d8d?pli=1)
Boom might refer not only to explosive growth, but also draw inspiration from a log boom, which is a large floating patch of timber on its way to the mill.
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