Water Distiller For Your Counter
With Christmas only days away, here is a great product from Amazon for distilling water right in your own home. This distiller produces 4 gallons of pure water per day. This product has excellent customer reviews - over 61 people on Amazon have written detailed comments about this product.
If anyone else has any great ideas for water distillers, post your comments here, given that this is the holiday season we will post a few more water based products to get some good feedback and maybe find you that great gift for your loved one.
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December 17th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
Distillers of course give you the best water quality, but the energy they use is tremendous. There’s a reason for the old adage “A watched pot never boils”.
Since I have too much time on my hands, I recently asked myself, how could I make water safe to drink (not remove pollutants, but get rid of microbe pathogens) without boiling and without having commercial chlorine bleach on hand? Chlorine bleach has a shelf-life of about a year.
How about make your own bleach solution? Here’s how I’ve done it.
I purchased a 12 volt/0.3 Amp solar battery charger (Harbor Freight, 40 bucks)
Purchase graphite electrodes (gouging electrodes from welding supply 50 rods/20 bucks). (You can also get graphite rods out of dead dry cell batteries)
Immerse the electrodes in salt water for a couple of hours to make a chlorate bleach solution.
One problem is that the electrode where oxidation takes place gets chewed up a bit.
My next experiment in progress is to soak the electrode with linseed oil and let it dry to see if that improves electrode life.
A platinum electrode would be great, but expensive.
December 19th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Um, isn’t pure water (no minerals) toxic to humans? Pure water leeches the body’s existing minerals out from the cells. Most civic reverse-osmosis purifcation plants have to re-mineralize the water prior to distribution. They usualy add salt and bleach to the pure water. The bleach breaks down releasing some needed chemicals.
How is the distilled water re-mineralized?
BTW, here’s the Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) for dihydrogen monoxide (DHMO) (also known as hydric acid):
http://www.dhmo.org/msdsdhmo.html
Water poisoning is not to be dismissed lightly. Most cases are fatal.
December 20th, 2008 at 11:44 am
The difference in osmotic strength between tap water and distilled water is negligible in comparison to the ionic concentration of stomach acid.