Re: Damned Mosquito's !!!
Sorry to hear that, Bob. My thoughts and prayers go out to you and your loved ones.
As for the XL5 you sent me ... haven't really had a chance to give it a "real" test on the ticks, but the mosquitos hate that stuff! Thanks a bunch for sending it. I will be heading over to Ghana probably late fall or early winter. Did you say it was a different formula for over there? I would like to be able to make some there for our staff and workers. I know it would be appreciated.
Thanks again for all you have done. I am also still interested in the "water purifying buckets." I have gobbled up all the info you have sent to me and dug a little deeper also. VERY interesting and potentially VERY HELPFUL to the people of West Africa.
Hello Aspeck, thanks for your kind words, valued and appreciated.
If you need anymore product to take to Ghana then just drop me a PM and I'll ship some out to you. I'm hoping that I can get one more trip to Africa while I'm still fit enough to go, one of the reasons I've been spending months at a time there was knowing that I'm on the slippery slope I'd like to do my bit before the axe falls. I have a treatment plan commencing in the next week or so but my Dr told me not to be banking on a successful result.
When your faced with situations like this you don't want to see all the work you've done come to naught, that's why I spent time working with people in Africa to make sure they know how to make XL5, they seem to be up to speed now so that's sorted. Same kind of thing with the boat mods that I've done, some of them {the inserts and the air deck covers that I posted in here} work really well, so after lurking in here for years I decided to do a little write up for folks looking to "protect their decks".
As for the differing formulations, well, any of the 5 different variants will work worldwide at a repellency rate of at least 80%, but if you use the one made for the specific location that you are in then the repellency rate goes up to around 95%. The product I shipped you is intended for use in North America and Africa, so you have the "right stuff" there, the one with coconut essence in it. But, as mentioned, if you need anymore I'll get it shipped to you, no problem, it would be a pleasure for me to be able to support your work.
While you're over there feel free to pass on how to make an effective mosquito/tsetse fly repellent, all they need for the most part is soybean oil and coconut oil or coconut essence {the stuff you can buy in those tiny bottles}.
As for the water purifying buckets, well, there's a bit of work to be done to get them into production, and I might not be able to complete that work, but, as above feel free to talk to folks about it to see if someone can take up where I may be leaving off. As you say there's a need to sanitize water, not just for drinking, but also for "washing" clothes, the only thing needed once you have a container "lined" with nano particled TiO2 is sunlight, and there's no shortage of that in Africa, it's just a matter of time before someone uses nano technology to do provide these benefits to folks who are in desperate need of sanitized water that doesn't cost $3 a gallon to produce.
All the Best,
Canada Bob.
