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This doesn't make for a good drinking water, this creates distilled water that would drain your body of minerals if you drank it. You now need to expend energy
by jbob2000 7y ago
This doesn't make for a good drinking water, this creates distilled water that would drain your body of minerals if you drank it.
You now need to expend energy to gather those minerals from somewhere else and then put them in the water. Is the energy spent gathering those minerals more than other desalination processes?
- option_greek 7y ago>You now need to expend energy to gather those minerals from somewhere else and then put them in the water Did you mean the white stuff coming out :)
- jbob2000 7y agoIs that just salt? Or a heterogeneous mixture of salt and minerals? You want just the minerals, no salt. How do you separate the salt from the minerals in that "white stuff"?
- simongr3dal 7y agoMost likely the NaCl crystals will have grown larger than the other salts and minerals, so the right progression of sieves will separate it well enough.
- ncmncm 7y agoSalt is a mineral. You need it. There are minerals in your food. You don't need to get them all from your water. Anywhere is as good as anywhere else.
- DennisP 7y agoDoes reverse osmosis retain the minerals? And wouldn't the minerals in food compensate for their lack in water?
- jbob2000 7y agoNo, reverse osmosis filters out most minerals. But reverse osmosis filters aren't always used for drinking water. And yes, minerals in food can compensate.
- wrycoder 7y agoPeople pay good money for “sea salt” to use on their food. That’s just the dried residue from this process, assuming clean sea water to begin with. It’s common to add a bit of salt and Epsom salts to water when brewing - the harder water improves the taste. You get your minerals from food, not water. I doubt your premise about leaching body minerals by drinking distilled water (or rainwater!).
- HillaryBriss 7y ago> People pay good money for “sea salt” true. and if the salt produced by this process if free of micro plastics, people might pay even more
- driverdan 7y agoThat's an urban legend. We get nutrients and minerals from the food we eat.
- DanBC 7y agothe World Health Organistion seems to think that it's important (but also reasonably easy to fix). https://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/nutrientschap12.pdf https://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/nutrientscha...
- robocat 7y agoThe first sentence is probably true, the second seems false. "Results of experiments in human volunteers evaluated by researchers for the WHO report (3) are in agreement with those in animal experiments and suggest the basic mechanism of the effects of water low in TDS (e.g. < 100 mg/L) on water and mineral homeostasis. Low-mineral water markedly: 1.) increased diuresis (almost by 20%, on average), body water volume, and serum sodium concentrations, 2.) decreased serum potassium concentration, and 3.) increased the elimination of sodium, potassium, chloride, calcium and magnesium ions from the body"
- sitharus 7y agoA very large number of people get their water from captured rain water stored in tanks. I do myself. It's not mineral-free but it's certainly very low in dissolved minerals. I appear to be alive, as do many others.