I'll refrain from commenting on Navy distilling systems that I operated for 22 yrs....no way is it purer than RO systems.
But we liked the taste of JP-5 in the water... and the food...and...
Mark
I'll refrain from commenting on Navy distilling systems that I operated for 22 yrs....no way is it purer than RO systems.
After some experimentation I can now confirm that use of painters clear thick Visqueen $5 for about 50 SF, is effective in drastically reducing evaporation in dry climates, Saves on chilling and heating cost, and generates for me about 1/2 gallon of purified water (PW) daily per 4 square feet of tank surface area and for me that comes out to about 10 gallons of RO per-day without the use of power or equipment. This method PW generator has been around for a bout 100 years
Actually is a guesstimate and includes all my tanks totaling 1200 gallons. I just know that Im not having to do bucket brigade every other day using either RO with a TDS of 30 PPM at $0.25 a gallon to stave off sky-rocking TDS, or tap water at 700 PPM TDS and watch my O2 levels drop from 8% to 6% as TDS quickly climbs above 1200 PPM. This solution has provided me a substantial drop in TDS even though evaporation is still occurring in the form of purified water vapor, that water vapor is recaptured by collecting and condensing on the plastic and drips back into the tank pure enough to drink 0 to 2 PPM. The same basic theory used on shipboard evaporation systems for sweet water, but of course they were designed completely different, goodness know I would never have allowed Seamen Rbishop to get tangled up in all that plastic lol:joke: Nice lad.I agree with the general sentiment in this thread, but I have another question. How do you go from .5gal per 4 sq. ft per day to 10gal a day generated? That indicates that you have 80 sq ft of tank surface you are collecting from. That tank looks like a standard 55 which has a surface area of 4 sq ft.
you can lead a horse to purified water but you cannot make him drink
This is simply a no cost solution that works for those that need one, you obviously don't need a solution and therefore cant see it, and no amount of argument can change that fact. As the saying goes, "you can lead a horse to purified water but you cannot make him drink":chillpill:![]()