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Article #5Re: Electronic Water Softeners
From: Theo Markettos
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 10:13
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 10:13
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CWatters <colin.watters@pandorabox.be> wrote: > "The attached document provides an evaluation of current magnetic water > treatment technology. Scientific literature is reviewed and summarized and > several devices are tested for scale prevention. In summary the magnetic > water treatment devices were NOT effective for scale control." I can't cite, but ISTR reading somewhere that these devices were only useful for closed systems (eg heating systems) not open ones. But in a closed system you can put cleaning chemicals in the water anyway, so there isn't a great deal of advantage. Theo
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X-Google-Thread: 102f53,7de94a088d708d1d X-Google-Attributes: gid102f53,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!212.101.4.254.MISMATCH!solnet.ch!solnet.ch!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!demorgan.zen.co.uk!feeder.news.heanet.ie!feed4.jnfs.ja.net!feed3.jnfs.ja.net!jnfs.ja.net!gemini.csx.cam.ac.uk!news.cam.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: Theo Markettos <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Newsgroups: ucam.chat,cam.misc Subject: Re: Electronic Water Softeners Date: 17 Sep 2005 11:13:30 +0100 (BST) Organization: University of Cambridge, England Lines: 12 Sender: Theo Markettos <theom@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Message-ID: <c4z*sSVYq@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk> References: <dge27r$rvl$1@gemini.csx.cam.ac.uk> <iDAWe.195672$2o3.10544218@phobos.telenet-ops.be> NNTP-Posting-Host: rapun.sel.cam.ac.uk Originator: theom@chiark.greenend.org.uk ([193.201.200.170])