If there’s ever been a
case of “the more things change, the more they stay the same,” it’s this
one.
Back in the 1960’s NASA
quite literally invented the technology for keeping the astronaut’s drinking
water safe and germ-free using ionic colloidal silver. And NASA used the technology in early space flights
for that purpose.
NASA later switched
from using a silver-based water purification system to using one based on
iodine. Meanwhile, the Russian Space
Program has continued to use a silver-based water purification technology to
this very day.
Now, according to an
article on Bloomberg.com, NASA is getting ready to switch back to using a
silver-based water purification technology.
It’s like déjà vu all over again, as the famous baseball player Yogi
Berra once stated.
Here’s the story of
how the U.S. space program has come back full circle to utilizing colloidal
silver in space in order to disinfect the astronaut’s drinking water, and how you
can take advantage of the very same kind of technology to make your own high-quality
colloidal silver at home…
Hi, Steve Barwick here, for The Silver Edge…
In 2000 I wrote an article titled Big Business Moves into
Silver-Based Antimicrobial Products in a BIG Way.
It later became the most widely re-reprinted article on the
growing uses of antimicrobial silver in consumer goods ever written.
In that article I revealed that NASA had actually invented
the technology for producing ionic silver and using it to disinfect the
astronaut’s drinking water in space:
“Even NASA used silver ions to maintain the water purity aboard the
Space Shuttle and International Space Station. This technology was originally
developed by NASA at the very beginning of manned space flights, back in the
1960s.
At
that time, scientists from NASA and the Garrett Corporation Air Research
Division began a joint project to develop a water purification system for the
Apollo spacecraft. This unit had to be small, lightweight and consume as little
power as possible.
They
produced a purifier that was slightly larger than a pack of cigarettes and
weighed only nine ounces. The device used electrolysis to dispense silver ions
into the spacecraft's water supply, successfully killing off any bacteria.
If
this device sounds familiar, it should. It can be considered the forerunner of
the common low-voltage DC current colloidal silver generator in widespread use
today by savvy consumers who want to produce their own high-quality colloidal
silver quickly and inexpensively!
NASA's ingenuity at controlling microbial contamination in the Apollo spacecraft's water supply opened the doors for safer methods of controlling water pollutants here on Earth.
NASA's ingenuity at controlling microbial contamination in the Apollo spacecraft's water supply opened the doors for safer methods of controlling water pollutants here on Earth.
NASA
held the patent on the device, but authorized a company in Cornelia, Georgia,
called Carefree Clearwater, to manufacture this device for civilian use. This
lead to the creation of a whole new industry based on the power of silver ions
to eradicate microbial contaminants.
Since
that time, numerous companies have developed their own version of NASA's silver
ion generator.
Today,
it is the world's #1 selling product for microbial control in swimming pools,
hot water spas, decorative fountains, ponds, manufacturing processes, and
evaporative water cooling towers.”
In April 2009 I wrote and published the article Silver: Nature's Purifier Used on
the Space Shuttle and In Swimming Pools, in which I pointed out:
“After
testing 23 methods of purifying water, NASA also chose silver as the purifying
agent on the Space Shuttle Program.
Silver
is being used in two functions that provide Shuttle crews with pure water for
drinking, air conditioning, food preparation and other operations.
Water
wastes are recycled in Shuttle flights and silver's first job is to treat
hydrogen-saturated water coming from the Shuttle fuel cells: this water passes
through a tubular device of palladium and silver alloy.
From
the silver-palladium tubes the water flows to a purifying unit where silver
eliminates bacteria, including Pseudomonas
A and type III A bacteria,
NASA scientists report.
By
establishing 100 parts of silver in a billion parts of water as hygenic for
drinking in the Shuttle, NASA eliminates the need for 1,000 to 1,500 parts per
billion of chlorine generally used for purification.
The
unit currently used provides Shuttle crews with 32 gallons of pure water daily
for all uses within the Shuttle, as well as for backpacks when the astronauts
work outside the vehicle in space.
Compared
to earlier prototypes, the new unit weighs 90% less, needs only one-third the
space. It also doubles the production of water and simplifies the process: it
eliminates the need for mixing, metering and testing water while in flight and
eliminates the risk of corrosion.”
Hate Mail
Shortly afterwards, I was barraged with emails from angry
individuals claiming that silver has never
been used on the Space Shuttle, or in any
manned U.S. space missions, and that the water purification method of choice
for U.S. manned space flights is iodine.
This, of course, was only partially true:
The U.S. had indeed switched to the use of iodine for water
purification inside the International Space Station, while the Russians – who control
one-half of the space station – stood firm with the original silver-based
technology to keep the water their cosmonauts drink fresh, pure and germ-free.
So silver was (and is) still
being used in space missions, but by the Russians and not the Americans.
When the barrage of hate emails claiming that silver had never been used by Americans in space
finally began to ebb, I posted a document
I found on the NASA.gov website, demonstrating that colloidal silver had indeed
been used in space flights by the U.S. since the mid-1960’s, and that NASA had
invented the technology.
I also wrote and published the article “Have NASA or the Russian Space
Program Ever Used Colloidal Silver as a Water Disinfectant on Manned Space
Flights?”, in which I
pointed out that way back in 1976 when the Space Shuttle first began missions
with astronauts on board, silver was used to disinfect the onboard water.
Indeed, I uncovered
a 1976 press release from
The Silver Institute which stated, “Silver
will be used in two functions that will provide Shuttle crews with pure water
for drinking, air conditioning, food preparation and other operations.”
And going back even further,
I revealed a May 1973 press release
from The Silver Institute explaining that the Russians, too, were using silver-based
water purification systems in space:
“Russian scientists working on
water recycling and purification problems for the Soviet space ship and
orbiting station program have decided on silver as the best long-term
sanitizing agent.
Researching the problems of water storage
over periods of several months, as well as purification for immediate use, they
determined that ionized silver provides the safest and longest lasting method
of transforming polluted waste in potable water.
A significant fact in support of their decision to use silver for purification was their experimental confirmation of the absence of toxicity in the silver treated water.
A significant fact in support of their decision to use silver for purification was their experimental confirmation of the absence of toxicity in the silver treated water.
In lengthy experiments on animals they found
that 100 parts and 200 parts of silver per billion in drinking water does not
accumulate in the organism and does not produce any detrimental effect on the
functioning of the organs or systems of the experimental animals.
This was also confirmed by year long experiments on volunteer human subjects.
The scientists, Drs. S. V. Chizhov, S. P. Pak, N. N. Sitnikova and Y.U. Koloskova tried many methods of purifying regenerated water but all except the silver system proved unsatisfactory over the long run.
In sum, the Russians found silver to be the
safest sterilizing agent, stable, and long-lasting.”
Déjà vu All Over Again
Now, according to an
August 25, 2015 article on Bloomberg.com, antimicrobial silver is apparently making
a come-back in the American space program.
Bloomberg states:
“The space station carries roughly
2,000 liters of water in reserve for emergencies, split about evenly between
the U.S. and the Russian sections of the International Space Station.
The two sides operate separate water
systems mainly because of decades-old decisions on how best to disinfect water…
…the U.S. relies on iodine and the Russians
relying on a different go-to: silver,
which in its ionic form is a powerful antimicrobial agent…
…NASA
has decided to switch to silver-ionized water on future missions..."
So there you have
it. We’ve come back full circle. According to Bloomberg, future NASA space missions will utilize antimicrobial
silver for water disinfection purposes.
So once again, when
people ask you why you love colloidal silver so much, you can say:
“Because it’s
used on the Space Station to help keep the astronaut’s drinking water free from
bacterial contamination…and the U.S. space program as well as the Russian space
program has determined that it’s perfectly safe to ingest long-term at the
levels needed to kill the germs in drinking water.”
Make
Your Own Colloidal Silver
Like
the Astronauts Do!
As you likely know, colloidal
silver can be very expensive – as much as $20 to $30 for a
tiny four-ounce bottle at most health food stores.
That’s
because it works so well against infections, people are willing to pay through
the nose for it.
But the
good news is this:
It’s
surprisingly easy to make your own high-quality
colloidal silver for less than
36 cents a quart – yes, that’s just a smidgeon over a penny per ounce -- utilizing the very same technology that’s been
used by both Russian and American space programs since the late 1960’s.
Only
now, the latest technology – the new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator
from The Silver Edge -- is much more advanced, being able to produce tiny
silver micro-particles as small as .8 nm – a fraction of a single nanometer in size!
(See
Transmission Electron Microscope images
comparing conventional colloidal silver particles to the new micro-particle colloidal silver produced
by the Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from The Silver Edge.)
Even
the FDA agrees that the smaller the silver particles are, the easier it is for
the body to absorb them, utilize them and afterwards excrete them safely.
(See here for excerpts from the FDA National Center for Toxicological
Research Annual Report in which it was clearly demonstrated that smaller
silver particles are far more bioavailable than larger silver particles.)
If
you’re a do-it-yourselfer, like me, you can learn here how
astonishingly inexpensive it is to make your own high-quality colloidal silver
(i.e., about a penny per ounce) with a Micro-Particle Colloidal
Silver Generator from The Silver Edge.
This
means there’s no longer any need to pay $20 or $30 for a tiny, four-ounce
bottle of colloidal silver in health food stores, when you can make it
yourself by the quart for under 36
cents.
If you
think it must be difficult to make your own colloidal silver, at this link you’ll discover how
incredibly simple it really is – so simple we have 85 year old
grandmas making their own colloidal silver every day!
Indeed,
with a device that’s as simple to operate as a coffee pot (see above photo of
the new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from The Silver Edge,
or click here), just about anyone can
make their own high-quality colloidal silver for just a few pennies per
quart!
- Learn more about the Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from The Silver Edge, here.
- Discover how astonishingly easy it is to make your own colloidal silver, here.
- See why the new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from The Silver Edge is the world’s #1 best-selling colloidal silver generator, here.
- Save $100 on a brand new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator, here.
Meanwhile, I’ll be back next week with another great article on
colloidal silver….
Yours for the safe, sane and responsible
use of colloidal silver,
Steve Barwick, author
The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual
The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual
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