Many scientists regard water physics and chemistry as uncontroversial knowledge, but many experiments speak against this assumption. The Austrian inventor Viktor Schauberger discovered that in nature, water moves along s-shaped tracks and often produces vortices, which in fact are important for cleaning the water and keeping it fresh and suitable for life. If a watercourse is artificially straightened to remove the bends and the vortices, it will deteriorate and eventually lose its life. This explains the devastating effects seen from the straightening of rivers conducted in many countries in the first half of the 20th century.
Schauberger exploited the energy liberated from water vortices, among others to transport timber down from the Austrian mountains. Later on he experimented with unconventional energy devices with some success and these are still being developed further.
More recently, Gerald Pollack, Professor of Biophysics at University of Washington, has revealed a range of surprising phenomena in water. These phenomena fundamentally challenge our understanding of water structure and properties, see his book “The fourth phase of Water” (Seattle 2013). Pollack discovered that water under specific circumstances form a sort of liquid crystals with surprising properties, the so-called fourth phase. Applications of these findings have now successfully materialised.
Currently, a range of water treatment devices, created to improve water quality have been marketed for drinking water, for irrigation and for other applications.
