I was thinking we could make several categories of the major methods which we are using, by lot, select several samples---say different run times or different start water configurations, of each major type of process used, and choose randomly from the samples the one's to be tested. My guess is it would cost about 1500 debt certificate equivalents to get a first look of about three samples of three types. Maybe less. That's 30 of us shelling out 50 FRNs. The real hassle is cordination, bookeeping, shipping packaging, collating the data and distributing it. I cannot do all of this myself at present. The labs one for particle size and one for kill titer---another consensus choice to be made---would not like receiving the samples one at a time, so they would have to be sent to a single destination for packing and forwarding to the labs. A standard [oops..] bottle and labeling method would have to be designed.
It is a bit of a project, but It would give us real data. James Osbourne Holmes [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: M. G. Devour [SMTP:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, September 27, 1999 1:01 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: CS>Research overview... James O., H. wrote: > A while back I proposed that we get a group together to contribute > a small amount of "money?" each and pay for some high end lab > testing of a variety of types of silver which we are making. No one > responded. I believe we've proven before that folks are willing to do this. I think it will happen and be more than useful when the time comes that *we have something to test!* Prudence has always headed these efforts off before the money got sent and spent. The reason is that we never really standardized any of the processes so that the testing would apply to something useful to everyone. Each vendor or user could do it for themselves, if we all had the money to spend, and that *would* tell us something in a broad, unsystematic way. But the best focus would be to thoroughly test only the two or three best looking systems, as measured by ease of use, repeatability of the simpler measures, low cost, etcetera. Once we've got some momentum behind a very few "recipes", then there will be a *lot* of incentive to test the h**l out of 'em! <grin> That's my thought, anyway. Be well, James! 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]>
