Larry wrote:

Wow...I didn't know it would use a thousand gallons of water just to make
a hundred. I recover about 99.5% with the little distillers. The
boiler's nearly dry when the thermostat cuts it off.

Yep, it burns a lot of water for that purified
drinking water.

Why couldn't you run the flush water into a 55 gallon drum with an
overflow to the drain, open to the air so there's no backpressure, then
use a sump pump with the float switch built into it in the "tank" to feed
water to the garden and lawn sprinklers? Harbor Freight has some dandy
sump pumps real cheap from the Chinese slavers. You'd have a 55 gallon
"reserve" when you turned it on, draining the tank into the yard when it
would shut itself down.

Well, the real problem is that the RO system is
installed under my kitchen sink, with the purified
water tap beside the regular faucet. That is real
handy when you want a glass of drinking water, but
not so handy when you want to plumb the flush
water to run somewhere other than down the drain.

Build it all into a storage building or in the
garage if you have one. I don't run the distiller in the house, except
in winter when I recover 100% of the heat to supplement home heating.
I'll bring it in from my storage building next month and run it from
midnight which eliminates heating the house for another month those
nights it runs.

If I built a new house, its would have the RO
system in the garage or a storage building, with a
recirculator and a cistern to use the flush water
for watering the lawn and flushing toilets.

I may have to reconsider where it's run after I get the Frybrid
(www.frybrid.com) installed in the diesel car. The storage building will
be full of "fuel" in 5 gallon plastic jugs, settling out solids from the
various restaurants for a month before I run it through the polishing
filters and into the car. That's going to consume a lot of space in the
shed...(c; I've got nearly 250 gallons per month promised from a group
of restaurants within a mile of home, if I want it. I'm going to have
free fuel running out my ears, shortly. I think a Frybrid-powered diesel
generator could take me totally off the grid to run nearly for free.
There's oil pouring out of restaurants all across the country, throwing
good fuel into the recycling dumpster they pay to have hauled off. How
stupid is that?

Actually, if you are going to go to the trouble to
process vegetable oil for your car, you probably
should put in a diesel genset to run your home
also. You're already going to all of the trouble,
and the additional fuel to run your genset would
not add much additional hassle.

Don W.