About Devic Earth

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Dr. Srikanth Sola, an internationally reputed cardiologist, spent a large part of his day taking care of adults with heart attacks. While most would have the usual risk factors for heart attack - diabetes, high blood pressure, smoking, etc., there were also some whose only risk factor was exposure to air pollution. These patients usually lived or worked next to busy roads or factories. The situation was the same whether he was in the USA, working as a cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic, or in Bangalore, at the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences (2008-2018). 


In 2008, Dr. Sola conceived of an antenna made up of a spherical coil of copper wires, which held promise for reducing the burden of air pollution. Fate brought him together with two inventors in Phoenix, USA: Enoch Simpson and Gary Symons. Simpson and Symons had already developed an almost similar technology, which was based on an earlier invention by Slim Spurling. However, there was no valid scientific data to support the efficacy of the coil. 
 

These early coils held promise for reducing air pollution in both lab and field studies. Unfortunately, they also had significant limitations. Reliability was poor, and carefully controlled conditions were required to make these coils to work. Furthermore, these coils required specific sounds or tones from a musical system to operate the coil, similar to a tuning fork resonating to the sound energy emitted by another tuning fork which was struck and placed nearby. This requirement for sound activation led to the systems being placed in bulky, heavy soundproof boxes which limited their portability and, in some cases, their efficacy. In 2013, work on this first generation of coils was abandoned. But the search for a better solution continued.