The nature of our technology, which is ozone based, is environmentally very friendly, and that was the initial impetus of the company. Since then, the company has branched out and developed several applications and systems to replace more traditional technologies that have been used by the world population for the past 50 or 60 years, one of them being chlorination. Everybody knows that chlorine has been used for a very long time as a disinfecting property, not only in drinking water, but also in the production of foods, and it s used extensively in some healthcare applications to kill microorganisms. It s been a great technology, it s done a wonderful job, it s inexpensive, but it comes with some very horrific costs of use that we are just starting to realize. Chlorine has a tendency to build up in the body and chlorine has been linked to colon cancers, breast cancer and birth defects.
Ozone is a great recipe.
You make it electrically with oxygen, and it goes from being O2, to O3, meaning that it has three atoms of oxygen. It s very unstable as O3, and wants to return to O2 very quickly. In losing that monatomic oxygen firing that atom off it gets to materials or microorganisms and becomes the most aggressive oxidizing anti-microbial agent known to man. The Internet drives an awful lot of business our way. As an example, I ve been doing product development for a Taiwanese company.