Take a look at this crazy home water purification system created by a 68-year-old retired engineer.
Above: "magnetic bottle. Plastic bottle with a magnet (I used magnets for the refrigerator). Here are removed from the water surplus of some metals."
Below: "Fig.6 Capacitance cereal saturation. Funnel neck of a plastic bottle filled with millet. Here the water is saturated with vitamins and gets incomparable flavor Russian fields."
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Next up at Starbucks: magnetized water infused with essence of millet. $8 a liter.
Um, if the metals are diamagnetic or even just weakly paramagnetic, all the refrigerator magnets in the world won't help. Most elements in the periodic table, including copper, lead, and mercury, are diamagnetic.
I curious to see how long it'll take for the 'Capacitance cereal saturation'-inducing millet to develop toxic mold eventually.
http://aem.asm.org/cgi/reprint/57/4/1223.pdf
Oh, it's just too easy...
There are crackpots in Russia just like in the US. Who knew?
Osprey101,
You can't magnetize water.
I wonder how easily it can be converted into a samogonny apparat.
It becomes blatantly obvious he's a crank when you get to:
If you play bluegrass instead, does the water turn into grain alcohol?
Looks like worthwhile article. For people who speak Russian.
@trr: Osprey101 is not saying that you can magnetize water, only that Starbucks would try to sell such a thing if it could make them some money (i.e., that Starbucks' patrons would buy it). At least that's what I'm sayin'...
Looking at the pictures, I gather he is filtering water through poker chips and worms.
Even if it's iron, its not ferromagnetic in aqueous solution. Iron is only ferromagnetic in the alpha crystalline form (ferrite) and then only below the Curie temperature (768 Celcius). This guy is a total kook.
I can read Russian, and I'm pretty sure the article is a joke, gently poking fun at cranks.
"Fig.8 Layered filtration box. Plastic box with several layers of different types of soil, turf, and sand, with a flower on top".
The first comment on the Russian article says:
"Hilarious, especially since the thermal tunnel stage kills the few surviving microbes who did not burst from laughter during the musical-aesthetic water enrichment stage. Way to go, inventors !"
IN SOVIET RUSSIA, WATER PURIFY *YOU*
Once, whilst walking my Great Dane to the park I met a neighbor who told me all about how he took pills containing water that had been in a tank in which music was played underwater. According to him the vibrations of the music lingered in the water molecules and gave off health increasing properties.
I took to walking my dog in the other direction.
In the US we have a much easier way of doing this. We drive our SUVs to the supermarket and fill a shopping cart with bottles of water. Then we put that water into our SUV and drive back home (most likely stopping at a gas station along the way) and then we carry all those bottles into our homes.
How simple!
Huh. Where I live in TX, we have pipes that bring the water in the house. :P
Millet, wheat and barley whole grain have a certain amount of lactobacillus on them, enough to ferment a probiotic drink, often called Rejuvelac (see Ann Wigmore's books). You have to soak then sprout the grain first before immersing it in a gallon of well water to ferment for a few days then refrigerate an drink a glass or three a day.
His system would likely suffuse some probiotic into the water. Cats chew on blades of grass for the same reason,
to improve digestion - fescue has lactobacilus on its foliage.
I like how he heats it up to 70 C to kill all microbes, and then runs it through a bunch of dirt right after.
brilliant.
I always thought my cats chewed grass just for the pleasure of barfing it back up on my carpets.
I am from Russia and I am member of the environmental NGO. I would like to say that it is the truth, that many Russian regions have problems with quality of drinking water. Purification system in many Russian regions is very old and it is not effective. Drinking water can contain different substances. I think that this man try to clear water this way. But it possible to buy charcoal filter with different additions for better water filtration. And it could solve this problem.
I'm surprised that no one has commented that the grain isn't millet, which is round. It's hard to see from the photo, but it really looks a lot like long-grain rice. Maybe it's pre-rolled oats? In the hull?
Is the guy in the picture the 68 years old retired engineer? He looks to me much younger than 68. (Maybe in his 50's)
If drinking water purified by his method is what makes him look so good for his age, then I am in.
Whatever you do, don't let John Henry Eden and his cronies get anywhere near it! Last time my dad did something similar, he died :,( Don't make the same mistake he did!
And apparently some monitoring service thinks the link in the post is a pornography site and is preventing me for reading it.
you ninnies fighting about magnetism do know that everything in the universe it at least diamagnetic, right? you need not have a massive ferromagnet to have an appreciable magnetic response. oh, the pleasures of mocking the intellect of others when your own analyses are filled with holes.
I know exactly what this russian engineer is trying to do,there is merit in what he is doing, first he is using a uv lamp to destroy any bacteria and at the same time he is structuring the water using silver, in this case using a silver watch and teeth!,( this practice is widely known in russia,(not using teeth of course!)but about using silver to purify water and has it's origins in ancient times - silver is a well known method to purify water
http://www.doulton.ca/silver.html
In the second stage of the purification process he is using magnets to take heavy metals out of the water even though they are fridge magnets they may work quite effectively in attracting metals present in the water.
In the third he uses soil - obviously to mineralise the water and passing water through soil replicates the natural purification process to take out large particles.
The fourth stage he uses charcoal to filter the water further, ( in this case charcoal into plastic biro cases ( obviously without the biro )!. Again charcoal is found in modern filter systems
The fifth stage is where the water passes through a container with stones that he got from a spa,this is I assume to mineralise the water
The sixth stage he is using sound waves ( classical music )to restore the water structure, I have heard about studies done on the effects of water - using classical music only!
The seventh stage where he uses millet, it is actually millet, but its natural whole grain millet - hence shape
The eight stage he is using a metal shower hose wrapped around a radiator to conduct heat into the water at a sufficient temperature to kill bacteria - again this may be valid though I am not 100% sure about this.
There are some modern water purification systems that have five stages of filtration or more that are in principle very similar, http://www.purawater.ie/reverse%20osmosis.html
In conclusion I would have to say his purification experiment has validity though I wonder is he going to be drinking this himself? Probably