Crystal Power CeLL by John Hutchison

[Koen1]

Yes, Hutchison keeps bringing up the Casimir effect.
As a Dutchman, I am of course proud of mr Casimir for discovering
that zpe effect, but I do feel Hutchisons remarks are perhaps
more confusing than usefull.

When you think about it, the casimir effect must be involved in many
other effects. For example, all "vacuum attraction" phenomena can
be interpreted in a Casimir view. Or for another example, the function
of a capacitor can also be interpreted as a form of Casimir effect.
(Perhaps interesting to point out that the first capacitor was also
a Dutch invention, the "Leyden Jar")
I personally think that that is the sort of interpretation we should
seek behind Hutchisons Casimir remarks.
In a sense it is a sort of zpe interpretation. I guess if JH would say
"it is zpe powering the cell" he would immediately be dismissed by
most investors and researchers, but the Casimir effect is well known,
so that will not be dismissed as easily.
But that's only my personal view.
If you have a better one, I'd be happy to hear it.

[sutra]

@Ian

Yes, to speed up the Rochelle salt drying I chuck it in the microwave while still wet....the water evaporated completely and the salt started boiling....according to some documents on line I should have now a Meso-SodiumPotassiumTartrate: the structure is slightly different but the characteristics should be the same.

I've then added some water to disolve the amorfous salt and now I'm having some nice spiky growing crystals...

@ All
I believe that mixing the ingredients suggested by Hutchinson in the last communication, one shouldn't use a too high temperature since the Rochelle salt will loose it's crystalline structure: adding enough water to disolve the salt and mixing in the other ingredients should be enough to obtain a solid compound. The cristallisation at nearly ambient temperature will nucleate from the other cristalline structures in the mix.
Electric current through the mix during the growth of the cristals will opefully align the cristalline structure in a proper way...I'll try to interfere in the cristallisation of the pure salt inserting a couple of electrodes in the solution to see if the current does some changes in the crystalline structure or its alignment.

Let's see....

Ciao

[Feynman]

@sutra  Good to hear you have been experimenting


@all

Can we convert Bis-Beta-carboxyethyl germanium sesquioxide back to free germanium?

[Koen1]

Can we convert Bis-Beta-carboxyethyl germanium sesquioxide back to free germanium?

thinking of extracting it from a barrel of garlic or something?
Or are you thinking of buying the food supplement?

I guess it may be possible to use such "organic germanium" and extract
pure germanium from it...
But you'll probably only get relatively little of that stuff, after all,
there's only one Ge atom per bis-beta-carboxyethyl oxide complex...
It may even be that the food supplement is more expensive than pure
Germanium, in the end.

[AbbaRue]

I spent some time searching for Rochelle Salt suppliers and the best price I could find is about $25/Kg.
I can get cream of tarter at the bulk barn for $8.80/Kg. That's about 1/3 the cost.
Takes a little time making it up though.
The recipe says 200g. of cream of tarter produces about 210g of Rochelle salt, thats another bonus.