I too made CS using salt when I started out. The benefits are simplicity and speed. It produces more than enough concentration in just a few minutes without worrying about gunk building up on the electrodes, switching polarity, or anything else at all.
The downside was visible settling and shortened shelf life in the finished product. But used within a few days, it seemed to work. The move towards pure water without additives was motivated by the discovery that this created smaller particles that didn't settle out and extended shelf life. The downside, of course, was lengthy production time, more sensitivity to conditions, and dealing with the fluffy silver deposits on the negative electrode. Edith wrote: > I ... always wondered if I couldn't get distilled water, how I > would make the stuff.??? Darned good question. However, making it coffee and orange juice suggests that, in a pinch, just about anything would do. Karen wrote: > In Africa, my friends don't have access to distilled water or > electricity (that's why I'm sending battery generators.) So how > would you purify regular water? Has anyone actually had "bad" > water tested after being treated with cs? Try solar power, too, or at least solar chargers for lead-acid gel cells or nickel metal hydride rechargeables. Still, you'll get a lot of service from a single set of batteries, so I'm probably worrying too much. Just getting enough silver into the water to sterilize it would probably take only a few minutes per gallon, would be my guess. Yes, you'd make all sorts of low concentration silver compounds, but if you didn't over do it they'd probably not be as harmful as, oh, say, dysentery? Anybody have any experience in this? Larry wrote: > Sometimes I wonder if we haven't made making cs overly complicated > in our attempt to improve on something that I don't think we really > know much about in the first place. At some level this is quite true. HVAC systems and LVDC units with some of the latest ideas on current limiting and polarity switching both seem to be pushing the limits of consistent, stable, long lived product with good effectiveness. Yet, the product they produce is not that much better in actual use than that from the original, simplest setups. I hope that the widespread development of processes and equipment for making consistent CS can advance the organized study of how well it works, and by what mechanisms, which is lagging hopelessly behind the flood of anecdotal results. Be well, Mike D. [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] [mdev...@mail.id.net ] [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: silver-list-requ...@eskimo.com -or- silver-digest-requ...@eskimo.com with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@id.net>
