[Greenbuilding] Iron in water

[Chris Green]

Keith Winston wrote:
> I think Kenn is talking about something like this:
>
> http://environmentsensitive.com/vortex.html
>
> Which is "structured water", <snip>

> >As for the 
> structured water stuff, I don't buy it. And wouldn't recommend it to 
> anyone.
You're right. "Structured water" is pseudoscience and quackery. Junk 
Science. Proof that snake oil salesmen still exist and come up with this 
kind of stuff from time to time.
Read this link with an article by a retired chemist:

http://www.chem1.com/CQ/clusqk.html

What these marketers are doing is capitalizing on very real concerns 
people have about the water they drink, and it's a lucrative market 
because we simply cannot exist without water. Water is Life, at least on 
this planet.
The remedies and fake technologies the snake oil people and Junk Science 
marketers sell might be harmless in and of themselves, and the product 
give some measure of comfort to the consumer: if so,  the SNpeople are 
selling a new, improved type of Dr. Feelgood.

HOWEVER, there is also a real danger that the happy customer might then 
be lulled into consuming genuinely contaminated water.
>
> PS: the whole structured-water thing sort of reminds one of the Kurt 
> Vonnegut book with Ice-9 in it: I think it's Cat's Cradle.
>   
Back in the '70's there was some noise going on when some ( Soviet?) 
scientists tried to convince other scientists that they'd discovered 
"left-handed" water  molecules, and these supposedly had weird 
properties. Some of the press of the day became alarmed over the 
prospect that all water would alter itself to have this feature and all 
water-dependent life on earth would die soon afterwards.

As far as I can tell, we're still here, and the discredited scientists 
who made the claim are probably retired or washing dishes somewhere.
Just not in left-handed water.

Cheers,

Chris Green.