I’ve got a years worth and more of food. I don’t know about water though. I live one the beach in Florida and fresh water is non existent. I wonder if they are going to shut off water at all. They are draining some reservoirs across the country. They are “repairing” one near me that they have lowered. I call BS on the repair since there is zero construction equipment near the dam.
Learn to distill water using two metal containers and some copper tubing (coiled in the center) and you have all the drinking water you could ever need living on the beach. Boil the water in one of the metal containers and you'll collect pure distilled drinking water in the other one. Just make sure to take supplements since the distilled water you make will be void of any vital minerals and electrolytes.
If you don't have access to fire wood you can use a large fresnel lense or parabolic mirror to heat the water using the power of the sun.
You don't even need a copper tube condenser. Just a tube, any tube, running from the boiler top to the collector. The steam will condense in any vessel on its own. It could even be a flat plate set an angle above of boiling pan. Steam will condense on the plate surface and run off into a container below it.
Yup, good ideas. It's good to get the ole noggin going to improvise with what's available.
I always recommend copper tubing for its durability and because you can bend it easily to whatever shape you need.
You can also use a pot within a pot with the lid for the larger pot placed on backwards and let the condensed water slide down the lid and into the smaller pot in the middle. This is good for smaller quantities of water.
Exactly. It's too easy to get caught up in one way to do something which may restrict thinking about good alternatives. Pot lid is a perfect example. A flat plate or pot lid nowhere as efficient as a copper condenser tube but will work and will provide distilled water just more slowly.
I’ve got a years worth and more of food. I don’t know about water though. I live one the beach in Florida and fresh water is non existent. I wonder if they are going to shut off water at all. They are draining some reservoirs across the country. They are “repairing” one near me that they have lowered. I call BS on the repair since there is zero construction equipment near the dam.
Learn to distill water using two metal containers and some copper tubing (coiled in the center) and you have all the drinking water you could ever need living on the beach. Boil the water in one of the metal containers and you'll collect pure distilled drinking water in the other one. Just make sure to take supplements since the distilled water you make will be void of any vital minerals and electrolytes.
If you don't have access to fire wood you can use a large fresnel lense or parabolic mirror to heat the water using the power of the sun.
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These guys are in Florida too.
You don't even need a copper tube condenser. Just a tube, any tube, running from the boiler top to the collector. The steam will condense in any vessel on its own. It could even be a flat plate set an angle above of boiling pan. Steam will condense on the plate surface and run off into a container below it.
Yup, good ideas. It's good to get the ole noggin going to improvise with what's available.
I always recommend copper tubing for its durability and because you can bend it easily to whatever shape you need.
You can also use a pot within a pot with the lid for the larger pot placed on backwards and let the condensed water slide down the lid and into the smaller pot in the middle. This is good for smaller quantities of water.
Exactly. It's too easy to get caught up in one way to do something which may restrict thinking about good alternatives. Pot lid is a perfect example. A flat plate or pot lid nowhere as efficient as a copper condenser tube but will work and will provide distilled water just more slowly.