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Larry

wrote in news:49edff44$0$48228$815e3792
@news.qwest.net:

I doubt you'll find *one* case of sickness from drinking water made
from
a properly maintained RO system. But it does bear repeating that RO
is
a very good incubator for water bugs if not maintained and operated
sensibly. Not that hard to do as you obviously have experienced.

Keith Hughes

Yecch.....Reading all this I'm hugging my distiller for security and to
keep from throwing up lunch. My digital thermometer puts the hard
boiling sewage from the city water tap at 108C when she's in full
operation, here at sea level. There is no incubator to hide in. You
never forget your first steam/hand encounter when there's a tiny steam
leak. NOTHING survives, no matter how gross the calcium deposits that
DIDN'T become kidney stones I used to suffer becomes.

Let's all take my little water test my distiller passes without
exception....

Place an extra clean glass quart jar in your oven and heat it to 250F
for 15 minutes to ensure its biology doesn't survive. Let it cool,
completely, to room temperature. Fill it with your best shot RO water
and tightly cap it. Sit it on the dock in the hot summer sun for a
month.

Drink it to show me it's safe to drink.

After 6 months of South Carolina summer on my patio, distilled water is
as clean and biology-free as the day I filled that jar. City water
grows like a swamp! You can even see stuff MOVING! RO water wasn't
quite as bad as city water.....but none of the RO promoters would take
my offer and drink it all green and growing like that.....as I
confidently drank the distilled water that had been sitting in the sun
all summer....

What a shame all that waste heat that COULD be distilling seawater just
goes out the exhaust on a boat.....wasted.

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Larry
You can tell there's very intelligent life in the Universe
because none of them have ever tried to contact us.....