For the topic of clean water, the focus will be on activated carbon, cavitation, and water farming. Hopefully I do not need to explain why clean water is important...
Activated Carbon:
From #262
August 17 2021 3:06AM
I'd like to take a minute here and talk about something that we haven't really discussed, and you haven't really keyed in on. Making charcoal is essentially pyrolysis for wood. Same exact concept. The wood needs to be in an anaerobic environment, then heated beyond the point of ignition. The anaerobic environment snuffs out the possibility of igniting, and after the volatiles are extracted through gasification, what's left over is charcoal. That's exactly what you do with plastic pyrolysis, but instead of venting the volatiles, they're distilled and collected as diesel and gasoline. I'm bringing this up because in a previous email I said something to the effect of "if all else fails, just burn wood." That's true, but is overly simplified. Wood gasification engines are an option for power generation, with the added bonus of giving charcoal for cooking (preferably in a komodo grill like a Big Green Egg). I say this because New York is similar to Oregon in that regard. Oklahoma has lots of mesquite trees, but nowhere near the amount of vegetation (at least not yet) as regions like yours. Using charcoal only for cooking is not really practical. There's a lot of it if done properly. One of the things I was planning on incorporating into my water system in Oregon was an activated carbon filter inlet to my tank/pond. Making activated carbon is quite easy, but does require some of that nasty word that keeps popping up: labor. In a large system like that, as would be on a farm, activating the charcoal is not really necessary, but if you have the time, why not? I'll link a couple of videos here to show you the process of making charcoal and activating it. Like I said, if you understand pyrolysis, you already know how to make charcoal. Then, after the first batch of charcoal is made, making the second batch of charcoal could also be integrated to make activated carbon from the first batch. Then just repeat. The whole idea of doing this is to purify your drinking water, which we haven't really discussed, as well as purifying the water you integrate back into the environment. I'm not sure if we've touched on this at all, but I've always had this as an integral aspect of any water system I've designed. It's just so easy, I never really think to talk about it. The fish and various other stream utilizing wildlife would sure appreciate it, though. A welcome change from dumping all the toxic garbage into their living rooms and kitchens, wouldn't you say? Heavenly. By the way, this is also the first step in making gun powder, so I'll link a video that tries to integrate that, but keep in mind that it's the same process for all charcoal.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IWuEFo55Ino
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GNKeps6pIao
Cavitation:
#590
August 13 2022 1:06AM
...I still don't understand how, why, or exactly what is doing this, but from what I understand about it, cavitation is more efficient for purification of water. I don't know if it's the extreme heat, implosions, or something beyond my capability of understanding an aspect of cavitation that I cannot fully explain, but cavitation has purification properties that have not been researched, or even contemplated yet. Very little sources on anything relatable, so I tend to not dwell on these abstract aspects of cavitation, but I'm as close to certain as I can be that cavitation is a "fix all" kind of idea.
...I was aware of electrolysis being a more prominent purification strategy for forever chemicals, and many forms of mining tailings that are toxic. It's extremely energy intensive, and the chemical cocktails are spread globally, so not really a viable solution. I'm also curious to know if radiolysis is an option. Both can be effective for water purification on a smaller scale, with the added benefit of useable energy upon ignition, but that doesn't seem to be a great way to eliminate the damage that such widespread chemical distribution has caused. It's bioaccumulating in every living organism on Earth: plants, animals, fungus, everything. Water purification is one thing, but neutralizing the chemicals is quite another.
#591
August 13 2022 1:50AM
It was a long time ago when I first started researching cavitation, but it began as a sort of grand scheme for purifying water after circulation through an aquaponics system, after plant based nitrogen (nitrates and nitrites) were absorbed. I read what seemed like thousands of research papers, some of which needed translation, and I thought I had discussed this with you but we've discussed so much I'm often confused on what we've covered in depth, and what we've just briefly scratched the surface of, but here's a couple of videos that barely skim the surface of this technology.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RcqCgge_Fxs
I watched this a long time ago, but it's one of the first things that sent me down this road. I'm almost positive that I've linked this video somewhere, talking to someone (probably a troll trying to get a rise out of me) about cavitation. I've linked so many videos by now, and covered so many subjects that I apologize for just assuming I specifically linked it to you. It all starts with machining one way or another, but everything is linked together. Here's another one (apologies for using CGI to make a point) that I saw many years ago utilizing a hydro sonic pump for pretreatment of wastewater.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QVeUcM2ibfI
Contemplating the vastness of frequency variations in the realm of sound, you start to understand that humanity has been focused on the wrong thing for thousands of years. There's more research going into impossible to achieve technology like brain-internet interface computer chips than cavitation, and it's dumbfounding. Truly disgusting what humanity has dedicated their attention, time and energy to with such vastness being completely ignored. Hell...
Water farming:
See the water farming page.