More difficult, the engineers used distillation but that was on a large scale and was expensive. I know RO but I've only seen it in brewing, small-scale and slow. A tricky problem, I don't envy you.
I've got an embarrassment of riches, an average of 12,700 litres a month off our barn rooves! I'm looking at rainwater harvesting at the moment.
Really enjoying your writing Al, I wish you all the best.
Lucky you (to a point!)...we're still drinking our rain water from the winter...a 1000 litre tank fills up very quickly and lasts for ages (but get a black one as the sun...when it shines...will damage the water). We're using a Berkey filter for drinking, which is great...but basic fitted filters are great and UV treatment over chlorine comes recommended by Medronho Jorge! All the best and thanks for reading and sending your thoughts. Hope it goes well. Al
Re your water purification issue Al. If your water chemistry is OK, then it's particulates and grollies you have to deal with. In the places I've been our people use course and fine filters and then put the water past an ultra-violet source. Interestingly the main reason for filtering out the particles is that sneaky bacteria can hide on them. Heavy metal contamination is a potential show stopper, nitrates (mainly from birds if you're harvesting rain water) can be chemically removed.
Thanks Chris...the issue we have is "high conductivity"...essentially water which is to "salty" for human consumption...but not because it contains salt...more minerals. RO is the best solution, but it's soooo wasteful of power and water. Hence the idea of diluting our borehole water with rainwater in the lake and then pumping it up to one tank, then through the usual filtration system of carbon/UV etc into another drinking water tank and system once the hard work has been done! If an ion-exchange filter can handle the conductivity issue it would save us all the infrastructure associated with diluting borehole water in to the lake, pumping it up the hill, and having two tanks instead of one! It's worth a look I think...I'm hoping to get the water analysis back this week...and then we shall see...fascinating (probably not...but every day continues to be a school day!)
We had a power fault on our street in Rome a few weeks ago. Thankfully the city brought in generator but we were powerless for almost 24 hours in a heat wave 🥵
What fun for your daughter!! 2 days at Fenway. That’s very cool. My LA musician son is here with us in Italy for a few weeks
Oh, and congrats on the 75th!
More difficult, the engineers used distillation but that was on a large scale and was expensive. I know RO but I've only seen it in brewing, small-scale and slow. A tricky problem, I don't envy you.
I've got an embarrassment of riches, an average of 12,700 litres a month off our barn rooves! I'm looking at rainwater harvesting at the moment.
Really enjoying your writing Al, I wish you all the best.
Lucky you (to a point!)...we're still drinking our rain water from the winter...a 1000 litre tank fills up very quickly and lasts for ages (but get a black one as the sun...when it shines...will damage the water). We're using a Berkey filter for drinking, which is great...but basic fitted filters are great and UV treatment over chlorine comes recommended by Medronho Jorge! All the best and thanks for reading and sending your thoughts. Hope it goes well. Al
Re your water purification issue Al. If your water chemistry is OK, then it's particulates and grollies you have to deal with. In the places I've been our people use course and fine filters and then put the water past an ultra-violet source. Interestingly the main reason for filtering out the particles is that sneaky bacteria can hide on them. Heavy metal contamination is a potential show stopper, nitrates (mainly from birds if you're harvesting rain water) can be chemically removed.
Thanks Chris...the issue we have is "high conductivity"...essentially water which is to "salty" for human consumption...but not because it contains salt...more minerals. RO is the best solution, but it's soooo wasteful of power and water. Hence the idea of diluting our borehole water with rainwater in the lake and then pumping it up to one tank, then through the usual filtration system of carbon/UV etc into another drinking water tank and system once the hard work has been done! If an ion-exchange filter can handle the conductivity issue it would save us all the infrastructure associated with diluting borehole water in to the lake, pumping it up the hill, and having two tanks instead of one! It's worth a look I think...I'm hoping to get the water analysis back this week...and then we shall see...fascinating (probably not...but every day continues to be a school day!)
We had a power fault on our street in Rome a few weeks ago. Thankfully the city brought in generator but we were powerless for almost 24 hours in a heat wave 🥵
What fun for your daughter!! 2 days at Fenway. That’s very cool. My LA musician son is here with us in Italy for a few weeks
The pro is that as long as the sun is shining we'll have power, the con is that if anything goes wrong there's nobody to call!
Another great blog how we envy the madness, when do expect to take guests? Cheers Simon
Come and visit!
Great stuff!
First off, Simon is truly a hero for our times! Second, having a real live rock star in the family -- very cool!
He offers to help out whenever he can...!