verio turned off my email for my domain
it looks like I need a place to host my email and web server before I can get it turned back on again.
if you are one of my friends, and can't get me anymore,
just leave a comment and we will figure something out.
I have 3 other addresses, so,
I guess I do not need to turn it back on.

what a pain,
I liked that feature,
why, verio, why did you do it ?
I was not getting that much spam, it was good the way it was.

I have been trying to take the fluoride out of the water.
this is a process that is very similar to what city water plants do.

all the things needed to do this ( bucket, spigot, and chemicals and
test kit) cost about $ 40 and all fit in the bucket very easy, put it
under the sink and click the lid closed, and you have an emergency
water treatment setup. make sure to leave the instructions ( and maybe
a calculator) in the bucket as well.

here is what I tried,
I hope this is not confusing

first you need a container for the water,
I used a 5 gallon bucket.
install a spigot 3 to 5 cm above the bottom of the bucket.
I used a 1/2" MIP to 3/4 hose connector,
then I got a plastic 1/2 MIP nut that is made for sinks.
I got a package of O rings to seal garden hoses,
I got a low priced plastic hose on/off valve,

I drilled a hole in the bucket,
and installed the adapter with the O ring on it, and secured the
plastic nut from the inside of the bucket,
then put on the on/off valve on the adapter sticking out of the bucket.
the parts cost about $ 4.5

now I have a place to treat the water, all I needed was a process.

so, I first fill the bucket with water,
next I carefully measure out the chemicals

first chemical is an aluminum salt
either
aluminum sulfate or aluminum chloride
it binds to all kinds of things

I used aluminum sulfate because it is at orchard hardware supply in
the fertilizer section
about 0.6g of it turned out to be almost 1/4 tsp of course crystals
devolve it in water, then pour it in to the bucket and mix it very well.

now for the next chemical
it should be lime or sodium carbonate

I was suppose to use 0.028g of the chemical, I picked sodium carbonate
because it is at orchard hardware supply in the pool treatment
chemicals section.

it turned out that my water was acidic, so I added more sodium
carbonate than they said, it ended up being almost 1/8 tsp of the
powder total.
your ending pH needs to be 6.5 to 8.5, test kit in the pool supply
section.

so, when you add the lime (Calcium oxide) or sodium carbonate you have
to devolve it first so that you know it is dissolved, then mix it into
the bucket, then mix the water for 20 min. and yes I know that this is
a long time.
then let the particles in the water settle for an hour.

I was suppose to add bleach powder (also a pool supply) as the first
step of the process, but because I was starting with city water, I
skipped this step.

after your waiting time, you can open the spigot and retrieve your
drinkable water, I did not like the after taste, so I filtered it with
my Brita filter and it was good tasting, they recommend a sand filter
if you want to skip the waiting step.

so, how much chemicals should I use for the water I have ?

but first, how so I measure out such small quantities of chemicals ?
the easy way to measure amounts so small that you have no scale for it
is to dissolve it into a known ( and larger) amount of water, then
measure the water out, that way it is easier to get a few mg of something.

they say lime is 1/20th of the aluminum salt, but I think that it
maybe should have been 1/2
good thing you can test the pH to make sure its right.

bleach powder, 3mg/L ~16 L for 5 gallons, so, 48mg for your 5 gallon
bucket.

remember that the point to this method is to eliminate the fluoride,
but you do not have to use it for that.

the aluminum salts amount use this table in the scale mg/L

this table was destroyed by the blogger site,
and I cant get it to come out correctly
good luck figuring out what it should be.

Alkalinity (ppm)
125 200 300 400 500 600 800 1000

Test water Fluorides (mg /l)
2 145 220 275 310 350 405 470 520

3 220 300 350 405 510 520 585 765

4 * 400 415 470 560 600 690 935

5 * * 510 600 690 715 885 1010

6 * * 610 715 780 935 1065 1210

8 * * * * 990 1120 1300 1430

10 * * * * * * 1510 1690


* means treat the water with a base before treatment, use lime or
sodium carbonate

so, my back up plan (no alkalinity tester) is just to put the pH to 7
before I start and then use the lowest Alkalinity chart numbers.

for my test, I just looked up the Alkalinity of the water out of the
tap on the east bay water website.
I need to figure out how to test that number if I am looking to treat
water from a stream or lake.

my source for the table
http://www.globenet.org/preceup/pages/ang/chapitre/capitali/cas/indme_g.htm
and most of the process.

have fun playing.
Adam~

A ruling by an obscure regulatory agency threatens to silence thousands of Internet radio stations. After intense lobbying from the recording industry, the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) is about to mandate exponential increases -- by as much as 1,200 percent -- in royalties paid every time webcasters stream a song online.
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my thoughts on this is that I think the CRB has the right to do this, but I do not think that they should.

any one remember elvis songs on the radio in the 70s and 80s,
not likely, because his estate charged the radio stations to much to play the songs that no one would play them.

so, he was not played at all or not much on the radio until people really stopped listening to him all together.

if the CBR wants to kill music, then I think they have the right.

I also think that people will go back to sharing music on tapes, CDs, mp3s and they will do it in person, not over the net.
and there will be more pirate radio stations popping up, the internet killed pirate radio and I kind of miss it.

the news all says "internet radio at risk."
when it is really "copyrighted music at risk of being more expensive than most people would like"
internet radio that just has news or plays non copyrighted music is at no risk,
musicians that put up there own music for free is not at risk.

don't be deceived, and I bet that people are starting to build transmitters and power amps for when the new rules are passed.
what are you doing about the issue ?

I have been watching David Blaine videos on youtube
who would have thought there was someone like that out there.
its just really neat.

http://www.psi.juzaz.com
tell me what you think of it.

and don't tell me that I have to much time on my hands,
I already know that.

so, I found what looks like a really good job on craigslist,
I sent the email with my resume like they said to,
and the message bounced,
there mailbox is full.
so, I guess I will try again later.

so, I made a new yahoo group,

"apocalypse, plague, and disaster Survival Group"
I was going to call it the "Apocalypse zombie survival group",
but lots of people did not like the zombie reference in the name,
but the email address and web address can not be changed,
so, the zombie name will remain to some degree,

I think the word "zombie" implies the masses of lost people that will form a mindless mob after a disaster,
but others just think that it refers to silly movies, I saw there point and then got rid of the name everywhere I could.

the web links are public, so, no joining needed to just look.

I will be putting down all that I know on that topic over the next few days into the files section,
I hope everyone likes it.

I just got my home phone and internet turned off.
so, I might not have internet for a while.
and the home phone is going away.

so, I finally figured out a way better way to get drinkable water out of the air
use the dehumidifier to get the water.
put it in a tea kettle and boil the water till it smells like water (~5min very rapid of boiling)
then cool it off because the britta type filters can only deal with water below 85 F
then filter it with the britta filter.

very good water using that method.

I will post improvements when I find them, but this one is really good.

if your allergic to the air,
the water you get from it will not be any better.
I think the Chinese have it right,
just use the water to make tea, never drink the water directly.

to have no fluoride in my water,

step one:
I use a dehumidifier to pull water out of the air,
you can get one at home depot or sears or target for about 250 $
I found this one on line, but it is the most expensive I have ever seen.
you can get them as little as 150 $
but the bigger ones are way more efficient.

step two:
sterilize the water,
I put the water in a one liter bottle, and use a germicidal UV lamp on it.
this is sold as a kit from REI, made by http://www.hydro-photon.com/

at this point the water is drinkable, but tastes very bad, see previous post.

step three:
put the water through a Brita water filter.

now the water is safe, clean, and really quite drinkable.
no more evil fluoride in my water.

and it is all done for only a few hundred $,
way less than the air 2 water people sell a system for,
although they do have an entirely automatic system.

the plural of anecdote is not data.

so, I took water out of the air, then sterilized it with a germicidal UV lamp, then I tasted it.
I can still taste it, 5 min. later.
it tastes like the breakfast I burned last week.
I think i need a charcoal filter to be able to drink this water.
I will try boiling it, but I have little faith that it will be fixed by boiling.

I want to stop drinking the water now.

http://www.earthclinic.com/CURES/fibromyalgia.html

http://www.nteu280.org/Issues/Fluoride/NTEU280-Fluoride.htm

more on fibromyalgia
http://www.gulfwarvets.com/cfs.htm

it looks like sodium benzoate can turn off parts your DNA, causing cirrhosis of the liver and other bad things, I will quit using it.
read about it here
http://news.independent.co.uk/health/article2586652.ece