"Stuart Noble" wrote in message
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Steve Firth wrote:
wrote:

One of the shopping channels is currently selling this. It's just a
wire wrapped around the rising main pipe, presumably creating a
magnetic field.

Oh FFS.

Look there are two schools of thought on this. One is the rational,
scientific view that such a device cannot produce the effects claimed.
And the other is the view of ****wits like Dr Drivel.



Doesn't quite explain why similar systems are used in industrial
applications. However, IIRC, for a magnet to be effective on the typical
domestic mains supply it would need to be the size of a large fridge.

I believe the industrial "successes" (if such they be) are those with
permanent magnets rather than coils and where the systems are sealed (ie the
same water passes the magnet many times), *entirely* different to a poxy
little coil on a rising main, which will have no effect at all.


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