Mike, I appreciate your input. No, I will not abandon my efforts to make CS. I've had a lot of mail about this, along with encouraging comments.
Thanks for your letter. Ted snip > >And so you have capsulized the marketing hype conflict between the >producers of LVDC and HVAC units, and between those who advocate salt >versus no-salt recipes in low voltage systems. > >Guess what!? As near as we can tell here, they're all making stuff >that works. It's just way too easy to get confused by mixing portions >of one recipe with parts of another to which they don't apply. > >> I don't even bother making the stuff anymore, there is so much >> confusion about the preparation. > >I understand your confusion, Ted, and I'm sorry. The trick is to pick >*one* method from one source and try it. Then try another, or vary >the first a little bit at a time as you gain experience. > >> I would really like to be able to use it, but it seems that no one >> can agree on how to make it properly, a.c. or d.c., high or >> low-voltage, color, etc. > >That's because, basically, they all seem to work pretty well, with >there being some adherents and critics of each, all without a really >convincing body of hard data to back them up. (Not to say there's no >data at all, but we've still a ways to go, eh?!) > >> Does anyone have a standard or are we just spending time and money >> uselessly? > >One of the fundamental goals I have is to produce and *analyse* as >extensively as I can afford, several "standard" recipes. This is so >that we can tell you "Do do this, that, and then this, and you'll >get approximately these results..." > >The biggest problem right now is most of the instructions you can >find tend to be at least a little vague in some detail or another. >This does *not* lead to confidence! *That* is one reason why there is >a silver list, to help fill in those gaps for you. > >We do need to learn what sort of particle size distributions, >concentrations, and bioactivity characteristics are produced by the >various competing techniques, and hopefully find ways to easily and >accurately measure them. These efforts may eventually get expensive, >and will certainly be time consuming, but they need to be done if CS >is ever to benefit as many people as it should. > >The bottom line is, we've a good number of folks who *are* getting >good results from their CS. They are *not* trying to sell you >anything and have no motive for telling you about it other than to >help. *These* folks are the reason I'm looking at CS and will >continue to do so until I'm satisfied. > >I hope you don't abandon the effort. If you need CS to work, I want >you to be able to succeed. We can start again to layout something >that will work, according to the combined (and sometimes conflicting) >experience of all of us on the list. It really isn't as hard as has >been made to look, I think. > >Be well, > >Mike D. > >[Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] >[[email protected] ] >[Speaking only for myself... ] > > >-- >The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. > >To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: >[email protected] -or- [email protected] >with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. > >To post, address your message to: [email protected] > >List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ Name : Ted Burgis e-mail : [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------ -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
