Harvesting electrical energy should be realizable with proper electrodes. This technology development is underway in our spinoff company, and has the potential to replace standard photovoltaic systems with simpler ones based on water. More detail on these practical applications can be found on the Pollack laboratory homepage: <http://faculty.washington.edu/ghp/>.
Water and Healing
“Drink more water” is a common grandmotherly command during childhood illness — but there’s more. In his now-classical book, sub-titled Your Body’s Many Cries for Water: You Are Not Sick, You Are Thirsty, the Iranian physician Fereydoon Batmanghelidj confirms the wisdom of that quaint advice. The author documents years of clinical practice showing reversal of diverse pathologies simply by drinking abundant water. Hydration is critical.
Batmanghelidj’s experience meshes with evidence of healing from special waters such as those from the Ganges and Lourdes. Those waters most often come from deep underground springs or from glacial melt. Spring waters experience pressure from above; pressure converts liquid water into EZ water because of EZ water’s higher density. So, spring water’s healing quality may arise not only from its mineral content, but also from its relatively high EZ content. Certain spring water have been used by natives of many countries for promoting health.
The Future
Water’s centrality for health is nothing new, but it has been progressively forgotten. With the various sciences laying emphasis molecular, atomic, and even sub-atomic approaches, we have begun losing sight of what happens when the pieces come together to form the larger entity. The whole may indeed exceed the sum of its parts. 99% of those parts are water molecules. To think that 99% of our molecules merely bathe the “important” molecules of life, ignores centuries of evidence to the contrary. Water plays a central role in all features of life.
Until recently, the understanding of water’s properties has been constrained by the common misconception that water has only three phases. We now know that it has four. Taking account of this fourth phase allows many of water’s “anomalies” to vanish: those unexplainable “anomalies” turn into predictable features. Water becomes more understandable, and so do entities made largely of water, such as oceans, clouds, and human beings.
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A much fuller, well-referenced understanding of these and additional phenomena appears in the above-mentioned book, The Fourth Phase of Water: Beyond Solid, Liquid, and Vapor < www.ebnerandsons.com>.