Jack’s News

I am currently configuring a nitrogen gas soldering station in my laboratory. My first experience with contactless soldering was during my work on military contracts in the 1980s.

Hello everyone, I wanted to inform you that my website hosting provider Media Temple was sold to GoDaddy a few months ago. Unfortunately, my website did not successfully transfer to the new servers and as a result, my entire website, along with the backups, disappeared. This was the only instance where I didn’t use a third-party website backup program, and as a result, over five hundred hours of content are gone.

I am in the process of rebuilding my website, but my focus has shifted toward developing lighting solutions for home and indoor horticulture. With the changing climate, it’s vital to create horticulture solutions that aren’t reliant on the weather. Light sterilization, which was successfully developed in the seventies using ultra-violet light, is a promising solution. My father was part of a team at GTE Sylvania Lighting that developed lamps for this application. However, since 2020, I’ve become aware of the politicization of Covid and diseases in general. The media has portrayed vaccinations as the only long-term solution, and most people didn’t even consider light sterilization as an option. It’s unclear where we stand today regarding infectious diseases. Once we’re fully funded, we will research and produce a safe light spectrum for sterilization. BASE Scientific lamps can be programmed to a “clean mode” calibrated for sterilization, unlike ultra-violet light, which pathogens have no protection against.

In the past, big light bulb companies such as GTE Sylvania, General Electric (founded by Edison), and Phillips used to dominate the market and make it tough for smaller businesses like mine to manufacture lighting. However, things have changed now, and smaller companies have more opportunities to enter the market. I recall my father facing challenges with his personal lamp designs, and he had to prove that he invented his lights in his home laboratory through litigation with GTE. Eventually, he gave up the patent rights to his sterilization lamp for free to India and Costa Rica.

I am constantly inspired by the brilliant minds out in the world. On the left-hand column of this page, you will find posts that support BASE Scientific’s vision either directly or indirectly. Additionally, I will be sharing “thought experiments” to help clarify our advanced light spectrum technologies which have evolved from my father’s vision. With modern manufacturing technologies, we are finally able to bring his vision to life. My father had an innate connection with nature and realized through his years developing lamp technologies for GTE Lighting that a simpler, more elegant approach to engineering illumination was possible.

Be sure to check back frequently as I will update the content on a daily basis. Additionally, a quarterly newsletter will be available starting in July.

I appreciate your ongoing support.

Jack Barakitis
Co-founder