Sounds pricy and temporary. How is H2O2 made anyhow? Is it possible to construct an peroxide generator? An ozonater sounds like it would work best but being exposed to ozone might not be all that good for the skin and eyes either. I guess that depends on the concentration. Distilled water is ozonated. It does bubble off after some time. Ken
At 12:46 PM 3/14/02 -0500, you wrote: >how about using food grade hydrogen peroxide? > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Marshall Dudley" <mdud...@execonn.com> >To: <silver-list@eskimo.com> >Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 10:53 AM >Subject: CS>CC & CS for swimming pools > > >> My son is planning on building a swimming pool. Since I am very sensitive >to chlorine, I have been >> researching alternative methods of maintaining the pool. >> >> First of all the pool company tried to sell us on a salt water >chlorinator. They claimed that these >> somehow did not cause the burning eyes, stopped up sinuses, headaches and >all that the normally >> chlorinated pools cause. I checked the web sites of a number of these >companies, and sure enough they >> all made the same claims. Then I stumbled onto a couple of sites in >Australia which have been making >> these units for about 40 years, and they said that was pure malarky, that >chlorine is chlorine and the >> effects are identical. >> >> So we asked the pool company to direct us to a pool they had installed >that used this system, and I >> went over there last night. I was by the pool for about 5 minutes and >could smell the chlorine quite >> well. Also my eyes begun burning. Now this morning I am sick, my sinuses >are stopped up, my eyes are >> burning, and I have a headache. So it seems that what we were told was a >bunch of bull after all. :< >> >> The pool company also said that they do not recommend using the copper >silver ion units that make >> colloidal copper and silver because they stain the pool and you have to >use chlorine anyway, just not >> as much. >> >> So I did some research last night and guess what I found out. The problem >is that the ions of copper >> react with the chlorine in the pool and form basic copper chloride which >is insoluble, and the silver >> combines forming silver chloride, which is almost insoluble. So both >plate out, the first being a blue >> green and the second being a grey or black. >> >> If you put no chlorine in the water, you should get no staining! The pool >place said that you have to >> use chlorine occasionally to shock the pool. They are half right, the >pool water does have to be >> shocked, since the organics will not be destroyed by the copper or silver. >But you can also shock >> continuously using an ozone generator. >> >> I believe this is the best way to go, and we will likely have some real >experience with such a system >> next year. >> >> Marshall >> >> >> -- >> 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> >> > >
