jowo

OK, Thanks to all. I won't try it! (Well, perhaps on a small scale with a petri dish and a 12 volt battery!)

I have a swimming pool. Of course algae is always a problem and I use chlorine and copper sulphate together with maintaining the proper pH to keep it under control. However, I'm wondering whether algae could simply be electrocuted? Obviously there would need to be extremely careful controls but would dipping the positive end of a 220v AC cable into the water at one end of the pool and the negative at the other end, then turning on the power for a few seconds kill algae? I've spent some time searching the Internet for any reference to using high voltage electricity as an alternative method of controlling algae but have found nothing.