This product just showed up in sportsmansguide.com, it is a hand cranked salt water filter. you pump the thing and it'll get you up to a gallon an hour or so. $799 is kinda stout.
Rick, do you have one of these? When I was on the cruise the other day the ship had steam converters. What do you use on a small boat like your sail boat?
Rick, do you have one of these? When I was on the cruise the other day the ship had steam converters. What do you use on a small boat like your sail boat?
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Re: filtering sea water
Wed, April 2, 2008 - 10:12 PMWELL YOU WOULD USE THE ONE THING I LACK, A FRESH WATER MAKER, ITS A REVERSE OSMOSIS DEVICE THAT TAKES A DECENT AMOUNT OF POWER TO USE, why am i shouting, must be the moonshine. i do have a fresh water filter it is made of carbon, there is fresh water on santa cruz island year round so i have to drink there eow but give me a few more years before the world goes pop and i will have a fresh water maker. btw 799 is reasonable a small fresh water maker is 3k and requires you run your engine with petrol for 13 gallons an hour unless you spend over 4k on a solar setup that needs batteries replaced every 5 years max, not that i dont want solar but i need to win the lotto or somethin first. -
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Re: filtering sea water
Thu, April 3, 2008 - 12:13 AMok friend, I have made enough fresh waer to sustain 6 high strung individuals for 2 weeks the only work invovled was the rationing -
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Fri, April 4, 2008 - 6:18 PMI'm so confused... I guess the simple solar still can't be made efficient enough for a decent ammount of output? I thought there were lenses and heat-trapping materials you could use to make quite the solar oven.... possibly even boil water.... You can't just steam off enough sea water in a solar still, to fill a bucket of fresh water each day?
And howcome nobody has one of Kevin Costner's piss cranker urine recyclers from Waterworld? -
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Sat, April 5, 2008 - 6:11 PMTHAT WAS A REVERSE OSMOSIS WATER MAKER
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Sat, April 5, 2008 - 6:17 PMRemind's me of the movie dodge ball. "do I have to drink my own piss? No, I just enjoy it." -
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Sun, April 6, 2008 - 5:23 PMSo.... I guess we now know that Rick's ultimate surival preparation dream is a machine that allows him to live by drinking his own piss.... haharrrrrrrrrrr -
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Mon, April 7, 2008 - 2:58 PMSo Rick, that hand cranked device I linked to would not be a bad deal for someone to have standing by on their boat. It was a new product in sportsmansguide so I was curious.
What I would really want stored in the super bunker would be one of those lightweight well diggers and a pump. I doubt one would dig for shit here in AZ (where we consider colechi to be comparitively easy to dig through.) but it'd be good for an EOW situation. Historically we have seen evidence that great events can change water tables, destroy springs, and scatter water points. A metorite could cause your local well to drop 100 feet or more.
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