[Greenbuilding] Iron in water

[Keith Winston]

Now, if we've dismissed the structured water hypothesis, I will note 
that water is indeed very strange stuff, that doesn't behave in many 
ways we would expect it to. It is rife with anomalies. Both a list of 
them, and further descriptions of them, can be found here:

http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/water/anmlies.html

Why would I post such a thing right after telling people that structured 
water is bunk? Am I confusing the issue? No, I just think that real 
science is fascinating, sometimes complicated stuff, often much more 
interesting than the bunk we make up. Also, water is pretty important to 
humans, and has a few ties to greenbuilding as well, so it doesn't hurt 
to bone up on the science or at least notice that there's science out 
there...

Hmmm, I guess that rather muddies the water ;-)

Warning: this anomaly stuff is really interesting. Enter at your own risk...

Keith


Chris Green wrote:
> 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.
>
>
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Keith Winston
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