CSWater purification with CS
Hi, AlchemySA, Contaminated water is not a suitable medium for the electrolysis of silver into CS/EIS. An EIS generator needs distilled water, which is obviously already decontaminated. The essential issue is availability and cost of distilled water. I pay $1.50 for a gallon of DW at the drugstore. I can make it at home for about $0.35 per gallon, using a $99 electric distiller. That cost could could be reduced by pre-heating in a suitable tea-kettle (e.g. a cast iron japanese tetsubin) over a fire using a free fuel. But if I am going to pre-heat the water, I might as well go the extra step and bring it to a boil, thus sterilizing it. It is often said that CS can be made for pennies per gallon. This is misleading. The chief cost of LVDC EIS is in the DW. In the long run, it is less expensive to decontaminate water by other means than to turn it into high quality DW. When ordinary methods of decontamination are lacking (due to disaster or remoteness) a sterilizer/filter like the Katadyn can treat enough water for one or a small number of people for less than the cost of distillation. Water purification by treating it with a CS additive is a different story, however. You can't expect CS to remove or kill the larger parasites, for example, or to desalinate brackish water. The problem of purifying water is vast topic. It usually requires an engineering solution suited to the circumstances. Best regards, Matthew
CSWater Purification with CS
Hello all. I'm a CS user and long time reader of this list, but this is my first post. The subject of water purification with CS (or with a CS generator) has me interested. I have read about this 'use' for CS many times but never seen this actually quantified. Most of the claims I have seen have been pretty vague. Whats the recipe? Is it an ounce of CS in a gallon of water? Or a gallon of CS in an ounce of water? How strong does the CS need to be? Or do you just run a generator in the water for a few hours? Do any members have experience with actually drinking potentially contaminated water that has been sterilised with CS? Research I have seen has used pure CS to kill bacteria in a dish, but I've never seen anything that specifically addresses the issue of sterilizing reasonably large quantities of contaminated water. Perhaps you can point me in the right direction. David -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour mdev...@eskimo.com
CSWater Purification with CS
Hi, AlchemySA, Welcome aboard! In North America, water purification by colloidal silver is routinely accomplished in Mexico using a high-ppm CS manufactured by the mill method. If I am not mistaken, its manufacture is a monopoly of the Mexican government. The name of the product is 'Microdyn. You can find a good deal of discussion in the archives concerning Microdyn. I don't know if it can be imported legally to the US or other countries. Best regards, Matthew
CSWater Purification with CS.
Thanks for the answer Matthew, but after reading 197 posts about Microdyn I'm still not much wiser. A dozen drops of '3200 ppm' Microdyn may well sterilize a days supply of drinking water but I'm really interested in what my own generator can achieve if I was to travel to an area with a polluted water supply. For example, is there any research, or even anecdotal evidence, that shows a small DC generator running in say a half gallon of contaminated water reliably kills bacteria? David Subject: CSWater Purification with CS Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 18:53:17 -0500 From: Matthew McCann mmcc...@franciscan.edu To: silver-list@eskimo.com Hi, AlchemySA, Welcome aboard! In North America, water purification by colloidal silver is routinely accomplished in Mexico using a high-ppm CS manufactured by the mill method. If I am not mistaken, its manufacture is a monopoly of the Mexican government. The name of the product is 'Microdyn. You can find a good deal of discussion in the archives concerning Microdyn. I don't know if it can be imported legally to the US or other countries. Best regards, Matthew Subject: CSWater Purification with CS Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 09:57:03 +1030 From: alchemySA da...@alchemysa.com.au To: silver-list@eskimo.com silver-list@eskimo.com Hello all. I'm a CS user and long time reader of this list, but this is my first post. The subject of water purification with CS (or with a CS generator) has me interested. I have read about this 'use' for CS many times but never seen this actually quantified. Most of the claims I have seen have been pretty vague. Whats the recipe? Is it an ounce of CS in a gallon of water? Or a gallon of CS in an ounce of water? How strong does the CS need to be? Or do you just run a generator in the water for a few hours? Do any members have experience with actually drinking potentially contaminated water that has been sterilised with CS? Research I have seen has used pure CS to kill bacteria in a dish, but I've never seen anything that specifically addresses the issue of sterilizing reasonably large quantities of contaminated water. Perhaps you can point me in the right direction. David -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour mdev...@eskimo.com
