Jonathan Schearer wrote: > I have a question for the group. Would a water distiller like the kind > found at www.waterdistiller.com <http://www.waterdistiller.com> be > similar to an alcohol still? Usually an alcohol still has a column and > uses water as the coolant for the condenser. These water distillers use > a coil that is air cooled.
It's been done. http://www.brewhaus.com/EasyStill.htm As far as their claim of 90% distillation on 2 passes, well, I'll believe that when I see it. Brewhaus says their only modifications are elimination of the "chlorine release valve", and installation of a lower power heating element. What they're describing is just the lower power version of the standard water distiller. I have a feeling they didn't even change the thermal cutout to a lower temperature version. They talk it up like there are all kinds of mods to it, but it looks like a standard water distiller to me. My feeling is to give it a try and see what happens. Operate it -=*OUTDOORS*=-, have a fire extinguisher handy, do the maths so you know what to expect, and give it a shot. If it doesn't work then you'll only be out the ~$129 for the distiller, and if it doesn't burn up then you'll have a nice little water distiller. I have one of these little distillers, and I use it every day for distilling water. It's the only way I can make the lousy, chloramine laden St. Petersburg tap water fit to drink. AP _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
