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There's much more in there Ulli...but this is too good not to share, thanks!
The practice of magic requires fierce determination – a willingness to go to any extreme and endure any hardship necessary – in order to realize your desire. The reason why it won’t work for the average person is that most people have their wills completely zapped by the decadent society in which they live, so they fritter their entire lives away in fruitless fantasizing instead of rolling up their sleeves and getting down to it.
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Time to 'get down to' that natural desalination, Araucaria!
Well, Dan, I’m no engineer or even a decent handyman, and I’m probably understating the technicalities involved. Not a good idea. But I would suggest that there are intermediate enabling attitudes between the hands-on sleeve-roller and the daydreamer. It doesn’t make me a fruitless fantasizer if I remind/inform people who have the minimal skills I don’t have that, for example, water will flow freely along a hydrophilic tube and that they don’t need a patent to devise whatever apparatus they like on the basis of that.
http://link.springer.com/article/10....no-access=true
It would appear to be possible to enhance the wettability of copper by surface treatment.
http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewc...&context=iracc
Given that copper tubing is the preferred material for transporting water inside buildings, there ought to be some way of marrying the experimental data with the materials available at a DIY store. DIY is usually associated with people doing the same work as a professional while removing the cost of that professional. But the DIY spirit is more to do with having a job needing doing, and getting it done with whatever is to hand. This of course includes unorthodox uses; this is also incidentally why DIY sometimes gets a bad name, but it doesn’t have to be that way; quite simply, most objects can do not only what they were designed for, but other things as well.
Take for instance the trumpeter playing the garden hose; or the watering-can clarinet
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DIY is anti-patent engineering. Patents bring money and ownership into the equation. You are supposed to get both publicity and protection for disclosure, but for anything really worthwhile, you supply disclosure and get taken out of the market. It’s a mug’s game, because for anything major they bypass the whole process – unless it is for something unpatentable like DNA: they will patent that (but we have disclosure). To be smart about this, we need to do the same. No disclosure and no market, you just do it, people see it and you tell them how to do it themselves. Water is the kind of area where there is still some wiggle room. They haven’t yet patented the properties of water we know about. And of course they can’t patent the properties of water we aren’t being told much about.
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! and thanks. Great match yesterday. 
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