Marshall, I think you're quite correct that people in less developed countries (LDCs) should be able to make their own CS and that you have a good idea regarding kits. I have a few questions and observations. First I would like to know a bit more about the distillation. But also I believe that the potential of locating educated and skilled CS makers in poor countries would suggest a higher volume of production than is implicit to your kit. Perhaps two kits would be a good idea, the low cost/ low volume one you suggest, as well as a ~$100 to $200 kit for high volumes.
For one thing I am imagining that in reality solar distillation is solar disinfection, simply killing off the pathogens and doing little with the minerals, the TDS. Please correct me if I'm wrong. On the other hand I think rain water may work just fine in some areas. As to electricity, here in Nepal (for example) there is an excellant awareness of inexpensive solar power, so that aspect of your suggestion would work well. At some point I'll be dying to set up solar CS production, both low and high volume. You're correct that shipping is a problem but I would imagine concentrated CS could be produced in principal cities for shipment to rural areas. As for fine particle CS I believe an excellant high volume production model is the one designed by Terry Chamberlain. This could output about 100 liters per day per electrical unit, 120volts DC. And the CS made from such a unit should be sufficiently inexpensive for lots of people, since their income level would be similarly low with respect to that of the CS production staff. *Incidentally,* since 120DC is potentially lethal, an important consideration where a number of people may be running the system, is proper attention to fail safe devices. For example, the other day I took delivery of a glass cabinet, to contain the converter and containers of this generator. The cabinet is glass all around so that the progress of CS production can be easily seen. The fail safe is wired to the cabinet door, the circuit tripped any time this is opened. As to the scale of production I also like your kit because it would allow individuals who are already adequately educated and skilled to take control of their own health and that of their families. But I do think that it would be less likely that this approach would be of much benefit to the poor. Your kit would also serve as a bridge between low and high volume production, an educational tool. As to producing in high volume I would imagine that a powerful good could be performed by some humanitarian agency that was willing to embrace this notion. The quality of life could be raised for huge numbers of poor by this one simple act of charity, their futures becoming bright. Thanks for your excellant suggestion. Namaste, Reid Marshall wrote: They say to give someone food will feed them a day. Teach them how to raise their own will feed them a lifetime. We do not need to supply them with CS. That would be expensive (shipping of water is expensive) and ineffective. We need to provide them with the means to make their own. Since many areas do not have electricity, they need to be supplied with kits to make CS using solar cells. The source of pure water is more problematic. But there are methods to do solar distillation that should work quite well in tropical and subtropical areas. These methods require only a bucket, a stick, some clear plastic dropcloth, and some water soaked fabric. I bet such kits could be put together for no more than $20 each, and could easily save several lives a year. Such a kit would contain: 1. silver wire - cost $2 2. container - $.50 3. resistor - $.10 4. LED - $.20 5. wire - $.10 6. plastic dropcloth - $3 7. Solar panel - $10 Total: $15.90 If anyone could put such a venture together, I would be willing to donate 50% of the profit from our CS manufacturing to help support it. Marshall -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
