Gerald Pollack, PhD

WATER: An Extraordinary Scientific Discovery

A Potential Revolution in Healthcare, Energy, Filtration (without a filter) and Desalination of Seawater with Just the Energy of the Sun!

It isn’t often that scientists discover a new form of the most common material on the planet – that can revolutionize fundamentally how very basic aspects of human life – like our healthcare – will be understood in the future. 

But our TransitionTalks speaker for June, Dr. Gerald Pollack, has done just that.  Dr. Pollack is the leader of a team that has discovered a fourth state of water – not liquid, solid or gas, but a kind of gel . . . that it turns out is everywhere!  It makes up all of our cells, clouds, saps in plants . . . and no one ever knew that it had fundamentally different characteristics from ice, water or water vapor. 

This new water (Dr. Pollack and his team call it Exclusion Zone water – or EZ water) has extraordinary characteristics.  For instance, it can act like a little generator and can produce enough electricity to light LEDs!  Just connect wires to the EZ water and the substrate that is next to it.  Think self-powered biotechnology (like a heart monitor), that you wear and never have to change the battery. 

EZ water can also be used to produce highly purified, filtered water – like removing the salt and other materials from sea water – by only using the energy from the sun.  No batteries or external energy source required!

And you probably didn’t know that you’ve been looking at EZ water all of your life . . . because every cloud is made up of this newly discovered material.  Better understanding the characteristics could easily translate into a far better understanding of our atmosphere, weather and even, perhaps climate.

Although it certainly is Nobel Prize-worthy science, the story and applications of EZ water are very interesting and easy to understand.  And Dr. Pollack is a delightful speaker who tells the story of how they discovered it and what the extraordinary implications are, in a very delightful way. 

The discovery of EZ water is a really big deal that will dramatically shape our understanding of the emergent new world.  You’ll go away from this presentation with a really new perspective on how we and the life around us actually works.  And you’ll get an early peek at what’s on the horizon headed this way.  

Additionally, a book dealing with this subject is now available here.

https://youtu.be/Hp8QZp7MguI

Gerald Pollack received his PhD in biomedical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968. He then joined the University of Washington faculty and is now professor of Bioengineering. He is also Founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal, WATER, convener of the Annual Conference on the Physics, Chemistry and Biology of Water, and Executive Director of the Institute for Venture Science.

His interests have ranged broadly, from biological motion and cell biology to the interaction of biological surfaces with aqueous solutions. His 1990 book, Muscles and Molecules: Uncovering the Principles of Biological Motion, won an “Excellence Award” from the Society for Technical Communication. His 2001 book, Cells, Gels and the Engines of Life, and his newest book, The Fourth Phase of Water: Beyond Solid, Liquid, and Vapor won that Society’s “Distinguished Award,” their highest distinction. The latter book went on to receive the World Summit Excellence Award.

Pollack received an honorary doctorate in 2002 from Ural State University in Ekaterinburg, Russia, and was more recently named an Honorary Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and foreign member and Academician of the Srpska Academy. He received the Biomedical Engineering Society’s Distinguished Lecturer Award in 2002. In 2008, his colleagues chose him as the recipient of his university’s highest annual distinction: the UW Faculty Lecturer Award.

Pollack is a Founding Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering and a Fellow of both the American Heart Association and the Biomedical Engineering Society. He received an NIH Director’s Transformative R01 Award. He was the 2012 recipient of the Prigogine Medal for thermodynamics of dissipative systems, and in 2014 he received the Scientific Excellence Award from the World Academy of Neural Therapy, as well as the Dinsdale Prize from the Society for Scientific Exploration. He has presented two TEDx talks on water.

In 2015, he won the BrandLaureate Award, previously bestowed on notables such as Nelson Mandela, Hillary Clinton and Steve Jobs. In 2016 he was awarded the Emoto Inaugural Peace Prize, and more recently the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Chappell Natural Philosophy Society. He appears briefly in the 2016 Travis Rice sports-action film, The Fourth Phase, named after his recent book. And, he is included in the 2019 listing, OOOM Magazine, as one of the “World’s 100 Most Inspiring People.” In 2020, he presented his work at the “Majlis” by invitation from the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, at his Royal Palace.

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