On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 04:17:23 +0000, Larry wrote:

RO - One pinhole and everyone dies.....
One pinhole and the stuff will be loaded with chloride, dead simple to
detect. Add one drop of silver nitrate solution. Any cloudiness
indicates chloride, and it takes very little. This has long been the
practice on steam ships, with regard to the boiler water. And I don't
paint a rosy picture of RO, other than it takes less than one
hundredth the energy.
So boil the stuff you drink, and use the cheap RO water to wash down
the expensive boat. You can afford distilled drinking water. You ever
figure out what it actually costs for homemade electricity. It ain't
pretty. Salt water showers suck, and so does 25 cent a kwhr juice. The
old quadruple effect evaporators found on steamships used one tenth
the energy of an electric single stage still. Nobody said boats were
cheap.