Salt, NaCl, Sodium Chloride.

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Rhodium and ruthenium used in hydrogen production method - 2nd August 2006
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Two pgms have been used in a new method that produces hydrogen gas from water.

Both rhodium and ruthenium are used in the method, which involves a process called photocatalysis and visible light.

A group at the Tokyo University of Science has developed it, describing it as a more efficient means of generating hydrogen from water than previous attempts.

Hydrogen can be generated in quantities up to 10 times greater than current processes, according to Fuel Cell Works.
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Rhodium is added to the two photocatalysts, which are made from bismuth vanadate and strontium titanate.

The strontium titanate is then coated with ruthenium.

When combined, the two photocatalysts can absorb more of the light spectrum, which in turn produces more hydrogen.

Japanese chemists also used pgm catalysts in the production of biofuels from plants earlier this year.

Scientists at Hokkaido University claim to have used platinum and ruthenium to convert an aqueous mixture of cellulose and hydrogen gas into glucose.

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Originally Posted by HydrogenBond

There is another low tech condenser design that would work in hot dry desert climites. This is based on the principle behind a cooling sack.
This is an ancient technique for making cool water in the desert. The sack is composed of an animal skin that seeps water causing the outer surface of the sack to stay damp feeling.
This seepage (sweat) will evaporate and absorb heat.
The temperature of the water in the sack can drop 20-30 degrees F below the ambient air depending on humidity-evaporation. The cooling sack could be designed with a salt water outer shell, that will cool an interior compartment so It can be used as condenser.

This is a good idea that I have considered.
in Australia it is called a "Coolgardie safe"
SEE:
http://forums.permaculture.org.au/vi...=refrigeration
It could easily be used in conjuction with a solar still.

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Stumbled accross this today
http://phillip.healthinfoshop.info/i...hp/archives/44

Salt is a substance with many different names

Salt is a substance with many different names
. So even if you make the extra effort to read food labels and search for the amount of salt in the product, it can be difficult to determine.

The following list contains a few of salt”s aliases: sodium chloride, sodium bicarbonate, sodium benzoate, monosodium glutamate (MSG), sodium nitrate and disodium.
Other products with a large sodium content include hydrolyzed vegetable protein, soy sauce, miso and brine.

Olives & capers are usually stored in brine

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http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599...7-1243,00.html
Desalination plan sparks green concerns

By Danny Buttler

November 13, 2006 12:00am
Article from: Herald-Sun

IT seems a simple solution on paper. Spend a few hundred million dollars and start turning salt water into an endless supply of drinking water.

Tata Salt: Salt Of The Nation
Brand : Tata Salt
Company: Tata Chemicals
Agency: Bates

Brand Count :155


Tata salt is India's first branded salt. The story of this brand is interesting because the brand came as bye product. Tata salt was launched in 1983. Tata Chemicals has their largest integrated chemical plant in Mithapur. The soda ash plant needed fresh water for their boilers. Hence to supply fresh water, the company started purifying sea water and it created high quality salt as a bye product in the process. This coincided with the government campaign with the support of UNICEF for promoting Iodised salt since iodine deficiency was a serious issue haunting the children's health.

http://marketingpractice.blogspot.co...of-nation.html

[Michaelangelica]

This is all over the media today.

From the Australian

Children as young as four are at risk of developing high blood pressure and eventual cardiovascular disease because of high levels of salt in many processed foods.
Even some foods that parents regard as healthy - such as breakfast cereals, cheese, ham and processed meats - are so loaded with salt that young children can easily eat well above their safe daily limit before they have started their evening meal, experts have warned.

The National Heart Foundation will today warn parents to be more vigilant about how much salt their children eat, saying too much puts them at risk of long-term problems and makes healthy home-cooked food taste bland by comparison. If this happened, children were more likely to reject the home cooking and seek more processed, energy-dense foods.

The foundation said a four-year-old who ate cereal for breakfast, a ham and cheese sandwich for lunch and just 25 grams of savoury biscuits for an afternoon snack would have eaten, before dinner time, nearly three times the amount of salt needed for an entire day.

Post-mortem examinations of four-year-old children in Britain have revealed signs of early vascular disease, according to Graham MacGregor, a professor of cardiovascular medicine at St George's Hospital Medical School in London.

Adelaide Green Porridge Cafe: Salt Kills Shock Exclusive

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Salt is a substance with many different names
December 5, 2006 on 4:02 pm | In Uncategorized |

Salt is a substance with many different names. So even if you make the extra effort to read food labels and search for the amount of salt in the product, it can be difficult to determine. The following list contains a few of salt”s aliases: sodium chloride, sodium bicarbonate, sodium benzoate, monosodium glutamate (MSG), sodium nitrate and disodium. Other products with a large sodium content include hydrolyzed vegetable protein, soy sauce, miso and brine.

Health Info » Salt is a substance with many different names

Dr Basil Hetzel is one of Australia's most famous medical research scientists. He has shown that iodine is vital in the human diet. In the process he has saved millions of lives and a billion IQ points.. . .

cretinism had been prevented by the injection of the iodised oil before pregnancy. If pregnancy was already established, there was still a risk of cretinism.
. . .
Have you ever met a cretin? The word is harsh in its implications; it means daft or dim-witted. But cretin actually comes from the word Christian,
. . .
Finally, we in Australia have to come to terms with iodine deficiency in our own country. A national survey, carried out by Professor Creswell Eastman and his team from Westmead Hospital, Sydney, has demonstrated that iodine deficiency exists in schoolchildren throughout Australia. A National Program with iodised salt is urgently required to meet this threat to the brain development of our children and preparations are now being made to launch a formal program in Australia.

Ockham's Razor - 26 November 2006 - The elimination of iodine deficiency as a cause of brain damage

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OCKHAM'S RAZOR - Salt matters
Sunday February 4, 8.45am, RN
Honorary Research Fellow at the Menzies Research Institute in Hobart, Dr Trevor Beard discusses the impact of salt in our diet. Food with added salt came late in human evolution so we are not genetically adapted to it.
The risks associated with high blood pressure, heart disease and strokes can be reduced by a salt free diet, particularly in an ageing population.
Dr Beard also found that the vertigo symptoms of Meniere's disorder could be better controlled in patients who had a low or no salt diet.
Ockham's Razor

How can we be not adapted to salt seeing we are mainly salty water and come from the sea genetically?

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Scientists Develop Salt-tolerant Wheat - Science News - Playfuls.com - Science & Technology

Australian scientists have used two recently discovered genes from an ancient wheat variety to develop a new way to breed salt-tolerant wheat.

Ancient genes used to produce salt-tolerant wheat | Science Blog

In a recent set of papers published in the journal Plant Physiology researchers describe the two genes – known as Nax1 and Nax2. The genes work by excluding salt from different parts of the plant: one from the roots, the other from the leaves. The discovery of the two genes is the subject of international patents.

“The two genes originally came from a wheat ancestor, Triticum monococcum,” says research team leader, CSIRO Plant Industry’s Dr Rana Munns. “They were unwittingly crossed into a durum wheat line about 35 years ago and are normally not present in any modern wheat.”

The project began when the CSIRO team used a highly accurate selection method – based on their understanding of how plants tolerate salt – to identify wheat varieties that could cope with higher salinity. They were particularly interested in the premium-priced durum wheat, which is much more salt-sensitive than bread wheat.

“We screened a hundred durum wheats from the Australian Winter Cereals Collection at Tamworth, which contains tens of thousands of wheat types,” Dr Munns says. “Highlighting the fact that the science of plant breeding

Wheat must be the mot human-evolved plant on earth.
No wonder so many people are having trouble digesting it!

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Salt tolerant crops and grasses
Salinity Solutions - Urban salinity

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Drug-Enriched Salt Could Prevent Devastating Tropical Disease
Article Date: 05 Mar 2007 - 0:00 PST
Though little known outside the developing world, the disease called lymphatic filariasis wreaks havoc on millions of people by causing their limbs and genitals to fill with fluid and swell monstrously the symptom commonly known as elephantiasis.

Drug-Enriched Salt Could Prevent Devastating Tropical Disease



If we have lots of desalination plants around the world- How many does it take to increase GW given that water vapor is the most important greenhouse "gas"?

What contribution do all new lakes, from the many new dams of the last 100 years, make to GW?

Has global humidity increased over the last 100-200 years? How would we know?

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__ Whole-salt is vital to getting a good night’s sleep, as it is a natural hypnotic. Of course, you can help yourself even further by having quiet time for at least the last half-hour before you turn out the light and by having a small, not sugary, snack before bedtime to help your blood sugar stay stable throughout the night. If you still use dairy, then this is the best time to use it. Dairy and other high trytophan foods help initiate sleep.

___ Whole-salt aids the pancreas to release the alkaline buffering agents you need in the digestive process. Without these alkaline compounds, you could not digest your food at all. A burdened pancreas needs all the help it can get. Whole-salt is also helpful in metabolism by providing the raw materials you need to burn your food for energy inside your cells and thereby keep blood sugar levels normalized in your blood.

___ If you have persistent, dry coughs, try putting a little salt on your tongue to change this. Whole-salt is important in the prevention of the acidic conditions known as gout or gouty arthritis, too.

___ Whole-salt will help prevent spider-veins in the legs or varicose veins. These show weakness in your circulatory system. Pay attention.

___ Whole salt is vital for the proper operation of your salivary system. Saliva is an alkaline substance that starts your digestive process and takes a little of the burden off your pancreas to finish the job, later.

If you have too little whole-salt, you will have an excess of a too-watery form of saliva, almost to the point of drooling, because the saliva must lubricate your alimentary pathway to the stomach.

But, when your salivary glands sense there is too little whole-salt, they start triggering the storage of water in nearby tissues. This produces the famed double-chin (which is really a warning flag that you are deficient not only in salt, but interestingly, that you are dehydrated, too.) So, to reduce a double-chin, normalize your whole-salt and alkaline water or spring-water intake.

___ Whole-salt creates the ability for nerve and brain cells to operate and to communicate for every moment that you are alive.

Make sure that your salt has NO added substances. Aluminum silicates are often added to commercial table-salt to keep them flowing well.

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