COMPLEX APPROACH TO STUDY OF NOOSPHERE-ECOLOGY PARAMETERS

COMPLEX APPROACH TO STUDY OF NOOSPHERE-ECOLOGY PARAMETERS

Korotkov K.

“All the history of technique demonstrates how humans gradually learned to see the source of natural power in environmental subjects being considered as inanimate, inert and non-necessary. We witness and participate in the creation in biosphere of a new geological factor, not existing before. Creation of the noosphere from the biosphere is a natural event, more deep and powerful than all the human history.”
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Rotwein unter Hochspannung: Mehrjährige Qualitäts- Untersuchung mit Gas-Discharge-Visualisation (GDV)

Rotwein unter Hochspannung: Mehrjährige Qualitäts- Untersuchung mit Gas-Discharge-Visualisation (GDV)

10. Wissenschaftstagung Ökologischer Landbau.
Beitrag archiviert unter http://orgprints.org/view/projects/int_conf_2009_wita.html

Rotwein unter Hochspannung: Mehrjährige Qualitäts-
Untersuchung mit Gas-Discharge-Visualisation (GDV)
C.Bigler1 , D. Levite2, M. van der Meer2, A. Kaufmann3 und F.P.Weibel2
Keywords: GDV, wine, bio-dynamic, quality, holistic methods
Abstract
We investigated whether we can detect any differences in red wines produced either
by bio-dynamic or by standard organic agriculture. We used standard methods to
investigate the quality of the wines and Gas-Discharge-Visualisation (GDV) method to
investigate a holistic quality of the wines. With the GDV-method, samples are exposed
to high voltage. The halo-like gas discharge caused by a burst of electron emission of
the sample is captured by a digital camera underneath a transparent, dielectric
surface. The wine samples measured originate from an On-Farm experiment in South
of France with two separately managed but neighbouring blocks (same soil and
climate conditions): bio-organic and bio-dynamic. Apart from the use of bio-dynamic
preparations, plant protection and fertilization was the same in both blocks. The
vinification of the sampled grapes was made in two replicates which were analysed
separately. During the three years of examination, the bio-dynamic samples did not
reveal significant differences when assessed with standard methods (sensory triangle
test, polyphenol analysis etc.). However, with GDV measurements the values for the
image-parameter “mean intensity” were mostly higher for the wines from bio-
dynamically produced grapes. In a „mixed effect model“ (GDV-parameter „mean
intensity“ as dependent variable, replication und cultivation-system as fix and year as
random effect) the difference was statistically significant. We conclude that the GDV-
method has an interesting potential to detect very sensitively differences in food
attributes. However, in order to interpret the results in terms of consumer-relevant
quality further research is needed. Read the rest of this entry »

ANALYSIS OF STIMULATED ELECTROPHOTONIC GLOW OF LIQUIDS

ANALYSIS OF STIMULATED ELECTROPHOTONIC GLOW OF LIQUIDS K.G. Korotkov Currently considerable attention is being focused on the study of the structural properties of water and the possibility of data transfer through water. A lot of controversial information we may find concerning memory of water. According to the viewpoint that has shaped, the phenomena observed during the experiments are determined by the processes of clusters and clathrates formation, mainly at the atoms of admixtures. The task of introducing these notions into the scope of contemporary scientific thinking requires, first of all, a set of probative and reproducible experimental facts. Water is a complex subject of study, and its properties depend on a great number of factors; this requires that several independent techniques should be used in parallel, and that new informative methods for study of water properties should be developed and introduced into practice. The high degree of informativeness of the Dynamic Electrophotonic Analysis based on EPC/GDV method that is applied for studying liquid-phase subjects was first demonstrated during the study of the glow of microbiological cultures1, blood of healthy people and cancer patients2, reaction of blood reactions to allergens3, homeopathic remedies of 30С potency4, and very small concentrations of various salts5. The differences between the glow parameters of the NaCl, KCl, NaNO3 and KNO3, solutions and distilled water are observed until the 2-15 dilution; however, the dynamic trends of the 2-15 dilution and distilled water still have different directions. Great interest has been roused by the studies directed at detecting the differences between the glow of natural and synthetic essential oils with identical chemical composition6. The oils were analyzed in order to detect possible differences between oils that were obtained by means of natural and synthetic processes, between oils of organic and regular origin; between oils obtained in different climatic conditions and extracted by means of different methods; between oils with different optical activity; between fresh oils and oils that were oxidized by various methods. The combinations of oils under study did not show any statistically significant differences when analyzed by means of the gas chromatography method. When the EPC/GDV-parameters are measured for liquid subjects, a drop of the liquid is suspended at 2-3 mm distance above the glass surface of the optical window of the device, and the glow from the meniscus pf the liquid is registered. Time dynamics of the GDV-parameters was measured by means of the commercially produced device “GDV Camera”, which is manufactured by KTI company, St. Petersburg. In order to estimate the statistical reproducibility of the data, no less than 10 independent measurements were taken for each type of the water, whereupon the results were averaged. Read the rest of this entry »