When I was younger I was told a story where a woman had wrecked a kettle by switching it on without any water in. In those days kettle didn’t have all the safety features we have now and the kettle simply burned out. When questioned why it had been switched on without any water in it the woman replied. ‘You mean wet water?’ How we laughed and the implication was that there was another water type. I look back now and think how this woman was ahead of her time.
Cue dry water. A method which could be used for storing CO2, methane and other harmful gases. Isn’t it handy how these new storage devices are being made available when we need them. Isn’t the market wonderful.
Of course, I think the best thing we could use them for is storing fizzy drinks. After having wiped up another spill today I’m beginning to see a market for drinks that can be ingested where the outer casing just fizzes away and yet just wiped up with no residue if spilt. However, I can also see a market for storing many liquids. A cup of bleach or lemon juice would be handy. A bit much just use a spoon to pick the excess up. How about medicines? Would this be a good way to store and transport them. Like sugar or rice. Just another commodity using standard transport. Just add to whatever is available in liquid form and drink.
On the negative side the way the powder looks reminds me of the gas chambers used in the US for executions. It is likely to be able to also store more dangerous chemicals which could be released easily and leave no traces once the gas has dissapated. If our government had had these in its toolkit David Kelly would probably have had a heart attack or fainting spell in his car or something and not gone for a walk in the woods. How can you protect yourself from a pile of powder? A pile of dust will never be looked at the same again.
Dry water is a new storage medium
When I was younger I was told a story where a woman had wrecked a kettle by switching it on without any water in. In those days kettle didn’t have all the safety features we have now and the kettle simply burned out. When questioned why it had been switched on without any water in it the woman replied. ‘You mean wet water?’ How we laughed and the implication was that there was another water type. I look back now and think how this woman was ahead of her time.
Cue dry water. A method which could be used for storing CO2, methane and other harmful gases. Isn’t it handy how these new storage devices are being made available when we need them. Isn’t the market wonderful.
Of course, I think the best thing we could use them for is storing fizzy drinks. After having wiped up another spill today I’m beginning to see a market for drinks that can be ingested where the outer casing just fizzes away and yet just wiped up with no residue if spilt. However, I can also see a market for storing many liquids. A cup of bleach or lemon juice would be handy. A bit much just use a spoon to pick the excess up. How about medicines? Would this be a good way to store and transport them. Like sugar or rice. Just another commodity using standard transport. Just add to whatever is available in liquid form and drink.
On the negative side the way the powder looks reminds me of the gas chambers used in the US for executions. It is likely to be able to also store more dangerous chemicals which could be released easily and leave no traces once the gas has dissapated. If our government had had these in its toolkit David Kelly would probably have had a heart attack or fainting spell in his car or something and not gone for a walk in the woods. How can you protect yourself from a pile of powder? A pile of dust will never be looked at the same again.