To: Tilted Irish Kilt; TEXOKIE; Kartographer; Marcella
Also, it requires a lot of energy to boil water. If your heat source is wood you’ll spend a lot of time cutting wood and tending the fire.
63 posted on
01/05/2014 3:05:47 PM PST by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: driftdiver
Distilling water takes a lot of energy and as driftdriver says that’s a lot of wood. Seems a waste of labor when you can be using high effeciant and dependalbe filters and let gravity do the work.
64 posted on
01/05/2014 3:31:30 PM PST by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: driftdiver
driftdiver :" Also, it requires a lot of energy to boil water. If your heat source is wood you’ll spend a lot of time cutting wood and tending the fire "
Two words : " Rocket stove "
Google it for information, or check out Kartographer's stove
Maximum heat from a minimal fuel source
65 posted on
01/05/2014 3:34:22 PM PST by
Tilted Irish Kilt
(Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
To: driftdiver
Good point. I had not thought through fully the fuel issues.
71 posted on
01/05/2014 8:09:33 PM PST by
TEXOKIE
(We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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