snub salinity solution Remember the black box? Like so many things, it could not get enough support at home to get it off the ground, so to speak, and it ended up going offshore. Australia is famous for being good at creating things and bad at developing them. Clever possums that we are, we came up with mechanical refrigeration, the grain stripper, the stump-jump plough, the electric drill, the tele-printer, the ute, the lawnmower, readymix concrete, the rotary clothes hoist, the pop-top can, the wine cask, the mobile police radio, cocclear implants, race cam, the inflatable aircraft escape slide, biological pesticides, controlled release morphine capsules, multi-focal contact lenses, the orbital internal combustion engine, lightweight wool, gene shears, and not for a moment forgetting the ever handy underwater computer. Our isolation and our small population has always been the excuse for failing to get behind many of the inventions. The result has been a brain drain of scientists and engineers going off to countries which know how to recognise their worth. But have we learned from these mistakes? No. Peter Patterson, CSIRO's Site and Security Manager, is impressed by a locally-made water-conditioning application which, he says, could go a long way to solving the State's salinity problems. But because scientists don't understand just how it works, it's not getting the proper endorsement for broad, official use. It has, however, cured salinity problems on farms and vineyards. It has also removed algae from ponds and calcium encrustation from pipes and air conditioning towers. |
Paul Pearce markets the Hydrosmart chemical free water solutions about which Mr Patterson is so fraught. Turns out Mr Pearce is fraught, too. "Unproven technology" is how government and mainstream science label the device which digitally generates high-resonance frequencies to confuse the electrons. I'm not going to try to explain. There's a website - http://www.hydrosmart.com.au. 
My point is that no one is trying to understand why and how this technology works. Both the federal and state governments have given its Adelaide developers a "patronising pat on the head" and told them to apply for federal grant money - which they did and which was rejected. Meanwhile, Dárenberg winery, Adelaide Oval, the Bali Grand Hyatt, farmers and market gardeners are using the technology and raving at the success - the clean water and improvements in soil. "We can do the Torrens," says Mr Pearce. "With research we could even do the Murray." But the powers that be turn the other way. The government sinks millions into salinity research and won't look at what a private enterprise is doing. "We have a paradigm shift, a sea change," says Mr Pearce. "But we're hitting a wall of obtuse indifference." So what's new? Article written by Samela Harris
harris@adv.newsltd.com.au |