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China Is Using a New Method to Mass Produce Healthier Water

Posted January 07, 2011 10:17 AM

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In an effort to produce mass quantities of healthier H2O, Chinese scientists have come up with a new method to change water's chemical composition. It involves making light water.

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01/08/2011 2:13 AM

So what is China doing with the heavy water this produces?

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01/08/2011 4:45 AM

Yeah - they could be selling it to 1940 Nazi Germany.

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01/08/2011 4:45 PM

Wish you were here. We are very light on drinking water in Queensland at the moment

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01/08/2011 2:32 AM

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So to send him to school? Like make him go?

This is the biggest load of hogwash I have read in a long, long time. How can it be that it even makes it to the public. Disgustingly, penetratingly stupid and and and and

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01/08/2011 11:18 AM

Gizmodo has been full of trash stories like this, especially lately it seems. And absolutely no fact checking. What a useless website. I think CR4 should stop posting and linking their stories.

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01/08/2011 11:33 AM

Come, now - they cite a study which reported on a sample group of 4 cases - and almost all were positive! What more proof do you need ?

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01/09/2011 2:01 PM

Electrolysis using a platinum catalyst to produce a supposedly healthy and beneficial 'light water' as an alternative to standard water.

The method could be the basis for industrial-scale light water production - and a new way to produce huge quantities of healthier water for the masses.

Yes I tend to agree. Shotgun news reporting (or should I say copying articles off other news websites that have themselves copied from other news sites) is hardly a responsible way of reporting, but it is soooo common nowadays.

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01/08/2011 9:56 PM

China is still having difficulty supplying its population with clean and safe water. Why would they invest into very expensive heavy water separation?

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