Jason, I highly appreciate your comments, like manna. But it would be a lie to say that I have contributed any great genius, my input more like dedication and dumb luck. What our earthenware water purifiers are all about is: getting an adequate and controllable water supply through earthenware, common red clay, making this a permeable material. Think about a flower pot, a bit damp on the outside, but having no flow. How did we get this common material to have the flow we want?
Imagine that clay shrinks a bit, both when it dries and when it's fired. If half of the clay composition for a water purifier, as powder, is pre-fired and half not, then after the filter is fired there will be lots of little cracks between these two types of particles, so flow is facilitated. Saturate a candle made with this composition with CS and you've got something cheap enough for the poor, with which they can purify their water, something they can fabricate themselves. All the resources are common, the challenge to put together enough subsidy to await market forces coming to play. As with you I create a mental scenario that the world is going to hell a hand basket, so there would be no Nobel prize. I don't want to say much more about that since my forte is ceramics, not health remedy, clairvoyance, or any other remarkable skill. As to our micro-biological challenge, we've done a number of tests, all proving 100% effective at fecal coliform removal. Perhaps I can make that an upcoming attachment. I also want to say that despite innumerable tests with similar results, 100% effective at fecal coliform removal, conducted around the Caribbean and Central America for a similar, silver saturated earthenware filter (Potters for Peace, Nicaragua), no 'reputable' U.S. lab recognizes this. i.e. the 'reputable' labs in the U.S. refuse to acknowledge that silver in ceramic media kills harmful bacteria. Some begrudgingly acknowledge 'inactivation,' but can somebody tell me, just what the heck is 'inactivation?' Hibernation of bacteria? 'Freeze drying?' Where is the burden of proof? As if I need to ask! As to life span of earthenware candles I will tell you more later, but those similar, CS saturated purifiers in Nicaragua have tested 100% effective, seven years after purchase. I think what we are producing will last and last, much depending on the correct firing temperature of the ceramic for maximum strength. And I do hope that I some point I can aid in supplying these candles to you and others. Please ask for more information. Here in South Asia there is a tradition of servitude and I am your servant, no hypocrite. Reid Jason said: Reid: Thank you for sharing the progress of your project. This has to be one of the best endeavors I've seen in a long time for public benefit. It embodies the finest and most noble aspects of free enterprise. In a different era, perhaps it would even be worthy of a nobel prize. Do you have any bacterial studies available for viewing? Can you predict the average life span of each candle? Can I buy a few for postery's sake? Warm Regards, Jason -- 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] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
