Calcium Magnets

[The_Fire]

Hi!
As my parents are getting a device called a "Calcium Magnet" installed on their main supply as an experiment, courtesy of the owners of the rental place they are inhabiting, to alledgedly save electricity by eliminating the calcium buildup in their pipes, washing machines and other devices involving heating water, I was wondering if these things actually WORK and HOW.
Unfortunately the only thing I can find is that it supposedly do something to the calcium which prevents it from becoming solid.

Anyone have any experience with these gadgets? And what type (non-electrical/electrical) is best? What's the science behind this?

I'm looking for things which can either disprove or prove it in order to have something to make the experiment either permanent or thrown into the garbage can.

 

[cyborg]

Unfortunately the only thing I can find is that it supposedly do something to the calcium which prevents it from becoming solid.

Sure sounds totally bogus to me.

 

[MortFurd]

Is bogus.

 

[Orangutan]

Unless It's One of these:
http://www.eatsmart.org/item.asp?id=1087

It's probably not based on good science.
http://www.chem1.com/CQ/magscams.html

 

[fuelair]

Hi!
As my parents are getting a device called a "Calcium Magnet" installed on their main supply as an experiment, courtesy of the owners of the rental place they are inhabiting, to alledgedly save electricity by eliminating the calcium buildup in their pipes, washing machines and other devices involving heating water, I was wondering if these things actually WORK and HOW.
Unfortunately the only thing I can find is that it supposedly do something to the calcium which prevents it from becoming solid.

Anyone have any experience with these gadgets? And what type (non-electrical/electrical) is best? What's the science behind this?

I'm looking for things which can either disprove or prove it in order to have something to make the experiment either permanent or thrown into the garbage can.

Try this for explanation of its' superior wooness (a debunking of quality!!):

http://www.heall.com/healingnews/may/magnetic_treatment.html

 

[The_Fire]

I am NOT looking forward to tomorrows phoneconversation.....

"Erhm...Mom? That magnet-thingy? Doesn't work......"

There is a small mercy in the fact that they are not paying themselves.....

ETA:
A new definition of Woo:
Woo: The debunking of reality.