Re: The Earth Is Flat!!!!!
I know of few folks that have stuck their necks out arguing against what I and others can prove.
This post is geared for other folks to look into this.
I measured the rate of dissolution of 272 cc volume of gases(in inches a cylinder h* 2*pi*r^2, with r= 1.625", h= 2", then inches to cubic centimeters conversion), specifically individually CO2 and O2. All air was removed and the reactors are filled with pure gas.
That gave me a rate difference.
I measured the rate in AM and PM times and a few times in between.
I also simply left the CO2 reactor pump (but not the CO2 gas supply) running all night also and the gas pocket bubble inside slowly went down and builds up during the day.
If you shut the reactor pump off at the end of the day, the gas bubble is "saved".
When you turn the reactor back on in the morning, the gas pocket rapidly dissolves(less than one minute), and behaves at the same rate as CO2.
O2 takes over an hour to dissolve the exact same volume..........
N2, Argon, Ne/He, etc all take much longer to dissolve.
These other gases also do not impact pH.
Only CO2 does.
Even if they were "other" hard to dissolve gases, how can it be possible they dissolve so rapidly the following day when the reactor is turned on? The gas inside is CO2 and dissolves at the same rate as the evacuated Reactor tubes that have pure CO2 added to the same height inside the tube.
It cannot be other gases nor contaiment gases from the CO2 gas supply source.
This test is repeatable.
1. Anyone with a reactor can test the CO2 portion and also test the gas' effect on a sample of water to see if it depresses pH.
2. You can also fill the tube with air to a marked level on the reactor tube and see how long it takes to dissolve vs filling with pure CO2. Try this in the morning with the CO2 gas shut off at night(this allows the CO2 level in the tank to decline near ambient levels).
Next, try adding pure CO2 to the reactor tube late in the day after adding CO2 all day long at the 30ppm range.
Add the gas precisely to the height marked of the side of the tube, say 1/2 way down and measure how long it takes for 2" of height to dissolve into solution.
Do you see a difference in the rate of dissolution between the times?
You should.
3. You can also measure how long it takes to achieve super saturation of O2 from the start of the day with the mist vs the normal method.
An O2 test kit or a meter can be used.
4. Simply watch the growth of the plants and see what you think and postulate "why".
5. Note the smaller bubbles inside the reactor tubes in the AM vs the PM times, do they persist longer later in the day? You can see that they do.
Look for those smaller bubbles in the AM and compare to later in the day.
6. Add a venturi loop to recirculate the gas bubble build up in your external reactor. How is it possible that recirculating it and maintaining the SAME bubble rate allows for lower pH and higher CO2 ppm readings?
The gas has to be CO2 in order for that to occur.
No gas is being wasted or mixing with the O2 pearling etc inside the tank.
The CO2 reactor loses efficency later in the day as the CO2 ppm builds up in the tank thus a gas bubble forms inside your external(or internal) reactor.
Purging this gas and recirculating it by atomizing it in the impeller/venturi loop increases the dissolving ability of the reactor thus you get a lower pH by adding that with the same CO2 input rate.
As gas saturation increases in water, so does the energy required to dissolve the gas against a concentrational gradient. The larger the gradient, the easier it is to dissolve the gas into the water. Even if the gas is highly souble, this still holds true and we can measure and observe this in the tank.
Some have discussed "the theory" but have not tested this specific case nor considered the rate differences between abmient CO2 vs 30ppm CO2.
This is what I noted and observed so I tested it and found this to be the conclusion.
CO2 does persist longer as CO2 levels build up. I think many assumed that CO2 dissolution was nearly immediate and did not vary, clearly that is not case and you can prove it to yourself using a number of the above methods.
I suggest folks attempt it and then decide for themselves.
CO2 still dissolves and dissolves fairly fast compared to other gases at the AM and PM times, but..........it does take longer late in the day and that is why our reactors build up gas at those same times.
Coinincidence?Other gases? Nope.
It can only be CO2.
I was correct all along. People said excess PO4 has to cause algae blooms and thought I was crazy in the past when I suggested it woukld help plant growth and reduce algae (but not scientist in the field, just pissy hobbyists who love their myths).
Naysayers? Enjoy some crow.
There is still a lot of work to be done, but this answers a few important questions regarding purity of the said gas source, type of gas, rates of dissolution, methods as to how and why venturi loops improve reactor efficency and increase pH drop and simply the observation of better plant growth and reduced algae presence.
All very good goals.
Whether the mist truly hits and is absorbed in the gas phase vs the dissolved phase that is causinjg the increased growth is still debatable. But it seems much more plausible now.....................
The O2 differences with adding mist when maintaining the same CO2 ppm levels in the water, is one way to show that the mist is increasing plant growth and I've shown this to be the case as well.
Still, I prefer several methods to show the CO2 mist increases plant growth more than dissolved CO2 in water at saturated 30ppm levels.
So that part is not yet done.
Regards,
Tom Barr
