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Default Thrift shop distiller $9

please repost the original thread, I would be interested in distilling
water from the engine.
thanks


On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 01:42:39 GMT, Jere Lull wrote:

On 2007-09-08 21:40:35 -0400, Larry said:

in powerboats like trawlers, motor yachts, bubbleboats. Anything
guzzling that kind of fuel is making a LOT of waste heat and simply
dumping it overboard.


You might be surprised. Friend had a 42' trawler that used about 1 gph
to go 8-10 knots. New boat is 55', but still only uses about 3 gph for
slightly higher speeds. There's not that much waste heat to use.