Dear Ken, Of course, you are right that in lots of places making CS is do-able, but I'll give you an example of just how tough it is here in Bangladesh. I mentioned that several of us are putting together generators based on Terry Chamberlain's design (BTW Terry, I hope you're better!!) It's taken the better part of two months, off and on, to get the various components together, hiring people to source the various materials. Finding things has been all the more difficult because this is best accomplished in the Bengali language.
We located a jewelers supplier that sells .999 silver, processed in Switzerland, and finally found someone in the market who could roll this into the size strips we need. And after a search in several of the markets we were able to come up with locally blown, glass jars, each 4.5 liters. Fortuitously there is a locally made plastic lid that fits the jar beautifully. Now we finally located someone who can take our 220volts AC and convert this to 110DC, maximum 15 to 20mA. But the water is what has taken us the longest to source. (A big problem with acid rain here makes solar distillation out of the question. You'd be surprised how much air polution there is in less developed countries.) Every brand of distilled water we have tested has been too high TDS to do the job. Even some of the de-ionized water is no good. For a month or so we thought we'd have to make our own de-ionized water, but then we found somebody who sells this to a couple of industries. What luck! But I consider Bangladesh to be highly developed when compared with most of Africa. A really good primer on why it is that nothing works in Africa, and much of the third world, is the novel, 'Things Fall Apart,' by the Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. Take for example the millions of tube wells that have been installed by UNICEF and other UN agencies. The vast majority of these are unused and rusting, for the fact is that when the very first part on the pump breaks, there are no parts to replace this. This phenomenon has lead to the new watchword of developers 'sustainability.' Perhaps 99.9% of all development ideas for Africa have been rejected as unsustainable and wishful thinking. Even if the resources were available most of the good ideas would require staff who are dedicated, intelligent and posessed of a lot of initiative. Such people can be a rarity. To make CS in Africa is theoretically possible, but only if there is concerted effort. Then again, a lot of education and awareness building would be key. You would also have to contend with health professionals who would be ready to quote the FDA and WHO viewpoint on colloidal silver. If the truth can't come to light in North America, what about the dark continent? Anyhow, I'm thrilled about our new Bangladeshi generators, because I don't feel right about setting somebody up to sell expensive CS, then exploit people. We must teach people to make CS and to make CS generators. There's a saying in poor countries that if you teach someone to fish you feed them for life. Bye for now. Reid P.S. You asked the price of Microdyn and I do think it's about 10 cents a gallon, once diluted. But this is not generally available outside Mexico and North America. Ode Coyote wrote: I'll bet that every village has at least one motor vehicle with a battery. Even a marginal junk battery that won't start a car or motor bike will do. Solar distillers, rain/dew collectors and the like are dirt cheap to build out of junk, if not absolutely free. The only expense would be the silver at $6 or so an oz. One oz .999 fine Bullion coins cost between $8 and $12 to literally make barrels of CS. If they have the infrastucture to get to the store or have things brought in and the money to buy Microdyne, they can make their own CS a lot cheaper...probably for less than 10 cents a gallon. How much does Mycrodyne cost? Ken -- 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 Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
