Is It  proven, that a water ionizer is as good as the advertisments will let you believe?
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The best thing to use is a water filter. They get rid of temporary hardness that causes scale, along with chlorine, lead, aluminium, and other trace metals. However, they do not purify water, best to buy a packet of water purifiers from the chemist.
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Probably not...otherwise, people wouldn't have came up with the water pik invention...\n\nJust my opinion.
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Man did u luck out running into me, go to www.sciplus.com "American science and surplus", all sorts of abandon science projects, factory over runs, cancelled government orders, motors, solar cells, weird stuff in the science dept, it's a mad doctors dream come true, CHEAP TOO ! check it out, you'll find lots of "COOL" stuff, that has many uses ! I did a hydro-electric demonstration of power application, that was so small, I could do it in a lab sink, E-mail me if you want an "A", it's an easy experiment, inexpensive, looks very sophisticated, yet simply displays the hydro-electric properties of producing low cost, hydro-electric power, using no battery's or electric for assistance, just water, so it's completely SAFE ! works on displaying milli-amps of D.C. power, yet you are still producing (at a very low voltage) power.
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I would think because the acid reacts to the impurities in the water which could make it splash up..but i think distilled water has no impurities so it wouldnt do the same thing..but this is just a guess..i am not an authority on the subject by any means
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Pure water is *not* a good conductor of electricity.  Dissolved ions are necessary to conduct electricity and at room temperature, there is only 10^-7 mol/L of H+ and OH- in pure water.\n\nDissolving salts (including strong acids) in water greatly increases the conductivity of the solution.\n\nTap water is a modest conductor of electricity because of dissolved ionic minerals and impurities.\n\nHeating water increases its dissociation constant making more H+ and OH- available in solution.
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My family and I have had Kangen water machines for over a year now and we are positive that the water is beneficial. I don't know about it being a "cure all" - although there have been tons of studies on how it helps Diabetes, Cancer, and other serious diseases. The technonogy has been in japan for over 30 years and many doctors and hospitals use the water. I do know that I havent gotten sick (even with a common cold) since I have had the machine. My Aunt's chronic fatigue is gone, as well as her acid reflux. There is no sediment in the water- that other person must have had a dirty bottle or something. If you want more info, please let me know- I have a lot.
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You will not be able to buy that solution.  It is a volitile solution.  You can however go to the pool store and buy a safe version.  Its the red one in the pool "water tester" kit.  Have fun!
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Gould has a good reputation and seems to cost more, but there's probably others just as good or better because the design and manufacturing techniques available to all manufacturers have improved so much in the modern computer/internet technology age. However, no matter what the product area, somebody will come along and invent a better mousetrap. That's why company's like IBM put so much emphasis on research and development to come up with new technologies and the patents that go with them. I had a Gould submersible pump for 27 years and it never failed. Recently the pipe it connected to down in the well developed a hole in it, so the pump had to be pulled out of the well. Even though the pump was fine, I replaced it with a new Gould pump. I hope I live long enough to replace it again in another 27 years!
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If you stick two electrodes with a light bulb into salty water, the light will shine brightly, showing that it really is a good conductor of electricity. The more ions you add, the more brightly the light will shine.\n\nSo in other words, it sure is a good conductor and it is one because of the NaCl-  (Sodium chloride) in it.
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This webpage has the answer -> http://www.lilybrookherefords.com/stef/waterasfuel.htm
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Well i remember I did a research on hidroelectric plants. And the good thing is you can make aworking model using some water and a bicycle generator hooked to a small light bulb (holiday decoration ones or others like that) also any kind of research that involves things the evaluator can actually see working and moving is always a plus. Just stay away from volcanoes, while they ARE very interesting, its been done quite a few times. Hot air ballons are cool, some china paper glued to make the ballon and a aluminum plate with a candle to keep the air warm (you inflate it with a hair dryer) and you have yourself a working model, plus you have all the data refering how hot air is less dense than cold air etc...there are a lot of cool things you can do out ther and believe me Internet IS going to be VERY useful
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The greatest phenomenon that I have come across in my life - 65 years old - is the sale of water, bottled water.  I know that there are places in this world where ordinary tap water is not suitable for drinking for whatever reason, but here in London, tap water is of the highest quality.  Even so, people are willing to pay more for bottled water than they do for petrol.  It must surely go down in history as the best publicity stunt ever (and the most costly).
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I highly doubt they would sell millions and billions of them for the past fifty years or so if they were harmful.  But, no, they're not.  They're completely water soluable and break down to nothing.
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There are several AD/DA converters on the market. The one that is the best is determined by how much money you have to spend.  With that said Apogee makes some high-quality products that won't break the bank.\n\nMore information:\nhttp://www.sweetwater.com/store/category/c796
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I think this is the best question I've seen yet....yes indeed....very good question. You are very wise grasshopper....Hmmmm....A product to Market?  I can think of several products that you could market.....I'll give you one....\n\nYou could market "Countertop Water Distillers."  I just bought one myself and I use it everyday.  A distiller turns bad tap water into pure water if you do it right.  The method is to filter your tap water through activated charcoal,  then distill it, and then filter it one more time through activated charcoal. This will pretty much give you absolute pure drinking water.  I paid about $135.00 for distiller that I bought\n\nNow....I'll go a step further and help you with your "sales pitch."\n\nThat fact is....there is no such thing as "good tap water" anymore. I don't care where you live or how good your tap water taste.  Here's the reality.....All tap water comes from either rain or snow.  The Board of Water Supply harnesses the water and adds a bunch of chemicals to it to make it safe. Then they pump it to the customers.  Right?   Ok....but......realize this....\n\nAll rain is "Acid Rain"  There is so much pollution in our atomshere that it doesn't matter where you live. A lot of it comes from China, Asia, Europe and the United States. This "Acid Rain"  or  "Snow"  contains 100's of different harmful chemicals.\nOnce it makes contact with the ground it starts to pick up more chemicals.  Like Pesticides and Animal Feces. The water will also pick up "Minerals."  However they are mostly "Depleted Minerals"  that only cause "Gull Stones" and  "Kidney Stones." \n\nFinally, the water flows to the  "Board of Water Supply."  Their  routine is to dump as much "Bleach" as it takes ...to "override" and "kill" all the other  Bacteria and Chemicals that are in the water.  Bam!  Finished Product!  Drink up! \n\nThe reason why so many people say they have good tap water where they live.... is because they have grown so used to the taste.  \n\nI thought I had good drinking water were I lived ....but....After I purchased my distiller and drank "pure water" for a month....I went back and tasted the water right out my tap. I could really taste the difference.  Big Time.  It was like drinking "Swimming Pool" water. I couldn't believe the difference and I will only drink  distilled water for the rest of my life.\n\nGood Luck on your assignment....and you better give me best answer.....Ha!...Ha!.....lol.
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Que Paso Gringo,\n\nWith all due respect to the other participants answering this question, WHAT THE HELL IS SO GOOD AND EFFECTIVE ABOUT SCIENTIFICALY PROVEN CHEMO AND RADIATION?\n\nIm a natural health practitioner and people who state that EDTA CHELATION its not PROVEN or not SCIENTIFICALY APPROVED are obviously ignorant and have never had the insidious deisease nor have any of their friends or relatives, and God forbid they do, cause those SCIENTIFICALY PROVEN alopathic methods surely will cause an extreme amount of damage besides burning all cells, good and bad, in the system.\n\nI have used EDTA successfuly for Diabetics and Cancer patients along with a proper PH balance and stress control, all contributing factors to any disease.\n\nNone other than a true American Hero such as Dr. Linus Pauling have endorsed EDTA CHELATION for effective non invasive cancer treatments. Linus Pauling, PhD is the only person ever to have received 2 FULL, UNSHARED Nobel Prizes. He was one of the world's greatest biochemists and scientists. Before his death he wrote and researched extensively in the field of alternative and nutritional medicine.\n\nFor more than twenty years Dr. Pauling devoted most of his time to research and educate in the fields of nutrition and preventive medicine. He wrote and lectured extensively about simple, safe and inexpensive measures to improve the length and quality of life. In his recent books, How to Live Longer and Feel Better, he covered that subject at length. \n\nDr. Pauling stated that EDTA chelation therapy fits in well with his views on health care. SO IF THE ESTEEMED FELLOWS ANSWERING THIS QUESTION CAN CALL DR. PAULING A QUACK then it confirms their motives for writing such a ridiculous statement for all the world to see. \n\nAmigo, EDTA is not normally present in the human body and is therefore, by definition, not an Orthomolecular substance. Chelation, however, is far safer and much less expensive than surgical treatments for atherosclerosis. Physicians who adhere to the protocol for safe and effective administration of EDTA, as approved and promulgated by the American College of Advancement in Medicine, integrate the results of the proven research into their chelation program. \n\nThat protocol is published in its entirety fro any medical prefsional or potential patient to review. Improved nutrition and supplementation with vitamins and trace elements is an important part of the overall chelation program. \n\nEDTA chelation therapy makes good sense, It has a rational scientific basis, and the evidence for clinical benefit seems to be quite strong. Metallic ions play an important role in the formation of atherosclerotic plaque. EDTA removes those ions with relative safety and without surgery. Published research and extensive clinical experience show that EDTA helps to reduce and prevent atherosclerotic plaques, thus improving blood flow to the heart and other organs. The scientific evidence indicates that a course of EDTA chelation therapy might eliminate the need for bypass surgery. Chelation has an equally valid rationale for use as a preventive treatment. \n\nFurthermore, yet ANOTHER Nobel Prize winner, and yes this Doctor also won 2 Nobel Prizes, one in 1931 and the other in 1938, Dr. Otto Werberg of Germany, who discovered that cancer is formed when the cells and tissues are "anaerobic", with out sufficent oxygen. EDTA chelation accelerates de detox process removing the excess acid in the body, thereby raising the Alkaline level or oxigen level for all functions of the body and once this is achieved, no way that any tumor, harmful bacteria, germs, parasites or fungus can stay alive in the body, it all now gets naturaly excreted by the waste system.\n\nTherefore, the decision should be obvious, use an alternative treatment that is LEGAL and EFFECTIVE, that costs considerably less than traditional alopathic methods and DOES not cause any secondary damage to the body.\n\nAt your service
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Well, they do, but you really need to remember to take a lot of these alternative feul source claims with a grain of salt.  Don't get me wrong, I'm always on the lookout for alternative energy sources myself but you really need to remember that in the two examples you've quoted, there is a great deal of scandal and controversy over the fact that the people who own the patents are making a fortune selling devices that take in more energy then they produce...  Which makes no sense to me.\n\nBoth of your examples imply that there is free energy available from water (or that water is used as a fuel) but water is not a fuel in either case.  It's the hydrogen that makes up two parts of the H2O that is the fuel and... remember this part, I'm going to capitalize it since it's so important... IT COSTS YOU MORE ELECTRICITY TO SPLIT THE HYDROGEN, THEN THE AMOUNT OF ELECTRICITY PRODUCED FROM THE HYDROGEN.  The only actual claims from either product I've been able to find about cost is from the cost of the water, not the cost of turning the water to HHO or "Browns Gas" as it has been called, and don't get me started on the difficulty of actually storing that gas.  Sure, the energy producing reaction turns HHO back into water, but guess what happens when you apply a match to this gas...\n\nI checked out the website for magnegas, and it presents a lot of papers (from people who have nothing to do with magnegas) listed in accredited scientific journals... but why do you suppose the paper on magnegas isn't published in any of those journals?  Hmmmm?  The most valid argument I've heard FOR magnegas in this context dealt with the fact that the makers of such are businessmen with a right to protect their product...\n\nding ding ding ding!!!!!  Hear the bells going off?  Businessmen are in the market to make money, and business is not expected or regulated in any way to have any sort of scientific integrity... Or for that matter any moral obligation towards any goal wether it be consumer satisfaction or finding a way to cut energy costs.\n\nOkay, so I'm only an amateur when it comes to science, I actually have to read what other people say when it comes to the scientific data published on these particular fuel sources, but I've studied con artists all my life and the most basic con is to offer something for nothing.\n\nSome people can give you free services legitimately, like websites.  They usually make money from outside advertisers, but when the person comes to your door offering you this "free" fuel source, you just need to pay $6500 for his generator (and don't forget, you'll be paying for the electricity to run this generator) that should be the first clue that something is wrong here.\n\nBefore I close this, let me reiterate...  I WANT a cheaper, cleaner alternative fuel source.  I use solar power and composting here at my home and I'm looking for more.  I just can't afford to be taken by those who prey upon the worlds desire for cheap fuel.\n\nHope this helps\nDuckie