--- Thanks to Colin Quinney for forwarding Technology Review Daily Update From: MIT Technology Review (6/12/2006)
http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=16974 "Cheap Drinking Water from the Ocean" by Aditi Risbud As Colin must have keenly observed - this story may have two messages. First, the obvious advancement to water purification, such that Carbon nanotube-based membranes will dramatically cut the cost of desalination. That is very good for the Third World. A second message is more subtle, requires thinking 'outside the box' and would mean little to other observers, outside the current threads on vortex related to polywater and WaterFuel. Indeed, that message may be a 'missing link' in some of what has only been suspected: re polywater --> waterfuel. The LLNL team measured water flow rates up to 10,000 times faster than would be predicted by classical equations -i.e. through the pores or a membrane, which as mainstream science suggest: flow rates through a pore will slow to a crawl as the diameter drops. That slowing is not progressively linear - it has now been discovered and at a certain level actually reverses itself and becomes faster than expected - by a factor of 10,000. And in typical Vortex fashion, anytime an anomaly of this magnitude is seen, the obvious next step is: can we find the underlying cause and then incorporate that into an OU energy device? In this case that would involve much complexity than, but the possibility is now open for further investigation. "It's something that is quite counter-intuitive," says LLNL chemical engineer Jason Holt, whose findings appeared in the 19 May issue of Science. "As you shrink the pore size, there is a huge enhancement in flow rate." Hmm. Some of that enhancement - the 10,000-1 anomaly is no doubt due to mineralization. A type of both chemical and structural change given to H2O - which is the colloidal incorporation of surface atoms from the carbon pore into the water, but is there more? BTW the colloid is likely very diluted. If so, as in the substance known as polywater, the rest of what is going on to account for the changes in properties is probably due to electrochemical changes in water structure, and the "possible" incorporation of Helmholtz-layer induced capacitance, which has been internalized into that structure. In fact, perhaps "some" of the surprising efficiency seen in the present day diesel engine is due to structural changes in the fuel itself, related to forcing that fuel at 20,000 psi minimum - through a "pore" of sorts. It is kown that higher pressurre is beneficial and Mercedes now uses a 40,000 psi diesel injector as standard. That would be an unappreciated benefit, AFAIK, even if other explanations have been given for it - but it does not mean or imply that one can necessarily convert a 'non-fuel' especially into a fuel. But it is intriguing. One would need to get incredible capacitance in thewater structure to get to "fuel" and we are talking kilo-farads equivalent per liter, followed by an 'exploding capacitor' effect... Next step in water fuel conditioning ? Perhaps it will relate to the incorporation of an external electrical charge into a microporous filtration membrane, giving a higher level of charge to water fuel - made 'on the fly'. In a perfect world, one would at least experiment with converting a diesel engine directly to waterfuel by adding an electrically charged micropore nozzle - in place of the normal nozzle. Jones
