12 thoughts on “Countertop Water Supply Goes Commercial”
Commercialization of a looming problem.
Installed a filter tap to prevent the purchase of bottled water. Neither necessary at this time of history.
Meanwhile, distilled water is unhealthy.
Long ago, before the family left Los Angeles, we were running a motel refrigerator sized distiller for drinking and cooking water, and every once a month or so scraped four inches of dried yuck out the bottom, yuck we would have otherwise drank. Produced about five (5) gallons in twenty-four (24) hours and was probably pretty energy intensive as it was basically electric coils boiling the water and refrigerant cooler to capture the condensation. G’da, who had no small experience with stills, was impressed
Let me know when you figure out how to drink oil …
My understanding is that it is so pure that it extracts minerals minerals etc from the human body. Certainly that was the accepted wives tale 60 years ago when was shipwrecked in a stinking hot desert. Did not stop me drinking the battery top up distilled water. Interested in opinions, especially learned ones. Why would I drink oil?
Oh, hell no! You’re not bringing facts into this, are you?
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“Distilled water is unhealthy” is the sort of think we’re hearing in RFKj’s “Old Wives Tales”. Anti-Vaxx crap
There’s nothing inherently “good” or “bad” about drinking pure water, ‘though there is plenty to be said for drinking impure water. I’m pretty concerned about the mercury in the water I’ve been exposed to most of seventy years, and the trickle-down effect that has had on not only me and my kids and grandkids but my parents and grandparents
When g’ma used to say “it’s in the water” I thought she talking about our teeth falling out …
Distilling takes the nasties out of water, but it takes out the mineral content, too. IIRC, that’s only a problem if you drink a lot and don’t eat regularly.
“if you don’t eat regularly” – yeah, funny, and pretty much what I was thinking. It’s like iodized salt. You can use sea salt when cooking – you don’t have to use iodized salt – as long as you are eating other things, too. You’ll get the tiny amount of iodine you need from those other sources.
Installed a rainwater tank and applied contents to Madam’s multiple outside pot plants. Month or 2 later Suddenly observed their mind stuffing vibrancy. Hell yea rainwater is better.
Wives tale, it absorbs nitrogen plant food whist falling?
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No rain when most needed is a bummer. The gods have a warped sense of humor!
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The NASA technology sounds very impressive, but needs plugging into the mains or an expensive solar array, so hardly portable (for shipwrecked in the desert purposes/ tenting holidays), looking at the price $700+ (USD), seems to be cheaper, similar devices available. Think I’ll pass on this device.
“The International Energy Agency estimates that, without improvements to efficiency, energy demand for space cooling could triple by the middle of the century — consuming as much electricity as China and India today.”
Commercialization of a looming problem.
Installed a filter tap to prevent the purchase of bottled water. Neither necessary at this time of history.
Meanwhile, distilled water is unhealthy.
“Distilled water is unhealthy.”
Really? And what, exactly, is unhealthy about it?
Long ago, before the family left Los Angeles, we were running a motel refrigerator sized distiller for drinking and cooking water, and every once a month or so scraped four inches of dried yuck out the bottom, yuck we would have otherwise drank. Produced about five (5) gallons in twenty-four (24) hours and was probably pretty energy intensive as it was basically electric coils boiling the water and refrigerant cooler to capture the condensation. G’da, who had no small experience with stills, was impressed
Let me know when you figure out how to drink oil …
My understanding is that it is so pure that it extracts minerals minerals etc from the human body. Certainly that was the accepted wives tale 60 years ago when was shipwrecked in a stinking hot desert. Did not stop me drinking the battery top up distilled water. Interested in opinions, especially learned ones. Why would I drink oil?
This is a nice overview of the potential positive and negatives of drinking distilled water:
https://www.verywellhealth.com/can-you-drink-distilled-water-8415864
Oh, hell no! You’re not bringing facts into this, are you?
“Distilled water is unhealthy” is the sort of think we’re hearing in RFKj’s “Old Wives Tales”. Anti-Vaxx crap
There’s nothing inherently “good” or “bad” about drinking pure water, ‘though there is plenty to be said for drinking impure water. I’m pretty concerned about the mercury in the water I’ve been exposed to most of seventy years, and the trickle-down effect that has had on not only me and my kids and grandkids but my parents and grandparents
When g’ma used to say “it’s in the water” I thought she talking about our teeth falling out …
Distilling takes the nasties out of water, but it takes out the mineral content, too. IIRC, that’s only a problem if you drink a lot and don’t eat regularly.
“if you don’t eat regularly” – yeah, funny, and pretty much what I was thinking. It’s like iodized salt. You can use sea salt when cooking – you don’t have to use iodized salt – as long as you are eating other things, too. You’ll get the tiny amount of iodine you need from those other sources.
Related, something I’ve noticed gardening in Texas is how much better plants do with rainwater than with tap water. Tap water adds chlorine and other things, but it also doesn’t have many things plants need:
https://www.tallahassee.com/story/life/home-garden/2021/08/26/rainwater-can-deliver-burst-micronutrients-plants/5584102001/
And unfortunately in the drought seasons in Texas, when plants often need to be watered every day, they’re only getting tap water.
Installed a rainwater tank and applied contents to Madam’s multiple outside pot plants. Month or 2 later Suddenly observed their mind stuffing vibrancy. Hell yea rainwater is better.
Wives tale, it absorbs nitrogen plant food whist falling?
No rain when most needed is a bummer. The gods have a warped sense of humor!
The NASA technology sounds very impressive, but needs plugging into the mains or an expensive solar array, so hardly portable (for shipwrecked in the desert purposes/ tenting holidays), looking at the price $700+ (USD), seems to be cheaper, similar devices available. Think I’ll pass on this device.
Keeping cool homes probably also saves water. . .
“The International Energy Agency estimates that, without improvements to efficiency, energy demand for space cooling could triple by the middle of the century — consuming as much electricity as China and India today.”
https://www.dw.com/en/keeping-homes-cool-on-a-warming-planet/a-59933154