On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 01:41:39 +0000, Larry wrote:



Parrots both talk, INCESSANTLY. I wish they'd never learned....OR HEARD
AN ELECTRONIC TONE! Once learned, any sound is repeated, AD NAUSEUM!
It's only funny the first 3 days. Then it drives me CRAZY!

Luckily, there is an on-off switch! Simply cover the cages and they
sleep, giving you a break in blessed SILENCE! Too quiet at home? Get a
parrot!

Thanks for the best laugh I've had in a while, Larry.
BTW, my wife bought a battery powered "parrot" which
has a sound activated recording and playback system.
Pretty irritating after the novelty wears off.
She sent it to her mother in Poland, where it was the hit of the
village. Don't know if it still lives on.

--Vic

On 2007-09-07 14:36:05 -0400, Vic Smith said:

What's the cost of some common bottled water? Never drink it, but
maybe some brands are low in minerals.

Most bottled waters are lightly filtered "city" or well water. Perrier
used to (may still) bottle Chester County, PA well water. Took so much
out that my friends had to dig a deeper well.

You can probably get better water for FAR less by putting a simple
filter on your house supply. We have a filter and dedicated "drinking
water" tap at the kitchen sink.

Most minerals won't be filtered out, but some of the "gunk" Larry's
talking about will be. I also have kidney stone problems, but the
filter is sufficient for me as our water's fairly "soft" to begin with.

--
Jere Lull
Tanzer 28 #4 out of Tolchester, MD
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Jere Lull wrote in news:2007091021343611272-
jerelull@maccom:

We have a filter and dedicated "drinking
water" tap at the kitchen sink.


What bothers me about "filters" is the same thing that bothers me about
RO. Whatever is filtered from the water backs up on whatever filter
media is used, whether it's a paper and carbon filter...or an expensive
RO membrane. In an undersink filter, with no backflush capability, there
it sets...for months...or YEARS....breaking down under the water pressure
and flow into SMALLER, less filterable, more toxic things. Once it has
broken down far enough, it passes THROUGH the filter into the drinking
supply...bacterial toxins that cause Legionaires' Disease is a good
example. Viruses are so small they aren't filtered in the first place!
The filters aren't molecular level. There are NO viruses in distilled
water....NOT EVEN DEAD ONES. Distilled water is safe even if the CIA
pours Anthrax into the water to reduce Social Security costs or for false
flag operations to keep us under control, a real possibility lately.

Am I better off filtering or drinking the water straight? Noone I can
find in the filter business wants to talk about what happens on the
pressure side of the filter element "as-time-goes-by". I can't even get
a straight answer from the SC Dept of Health and Environmental Control on
this subject. This may be because every coffee pot in every restaurant
has this little metal filter in its water supply line that is NEVER
changed unless the whole machine changes. I'm sure glad it's boiled
before I drink it! The iced tea is NOT! Most of it is just water poured
in as the tea brews...filtered, of course.

Larry
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On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:32:59 +0000, Larry wrote:

Works great,
change it every 100 gallons or when the water starts tasting slightly
metallic, indicating the carbon has loaded up with benzene, which
distillers also distill out of the water.

The CRC lists 15 substances with the same boiling point as water.
A simple still won't even remove alcohol or methanol, or acetic acid.
Of the hundreds of known chemicals with boiling points near water,
few, fortunately, are likely to be found in high seas water. Some
rivers are a different story. I would't trust some river water not to
attack gelcoat or aluminum. You wouldn't have the urge to put it in a
nice clean still. Distillation is OK but it costs a lot. In my
opinion, either RO or distilled water should be run through a carbon
filter. Gets the benzene and a lot more. Carbon ought to take out
'plastic taste' but I have not put it to the test.

Casady

(Richard Casady) wrote in
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On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:32:59 +0000, Larry wrote:

Works great,
change it every 100 gallons or when the water starts tasting slightly
metallic, indicating the carbon has loaded up with benzene, which
distillers also distill out of the water.

The CRC lists 15 substances with the same boiling point as water.
A simple still won't even remove alcohol or methanol, or acetic acid.
Of the hundreds of known chemicals with boiling points near water,
few, fortunately, are likely to be found in high seas water. Some
rivers are a different story. I would't trust some river water not to
attack gelcoat or aluminum. You wouldn't have the urge to put it in a
nice clean still. Distillation is OK but it costs a lot. In my
opinion, either RO or distilled water should be run through a carbon
filter. Gets the benzene and a lot more. Carbon ought to take out
'plastic taste' but I have not put it to the test.

Casady


The test is the TDS meter and electrical conductivity. Distilled water
is an insulator. These carbon-based chemicals you list attach themselves
very nicely to the carbon molecules in the activated carbon filter. That
filter gets quite hot in their presence during use, even at the tiny
trickle of water coming from a small distiller.

Even at 2000VDC my water is barely conducting. It's a very good
insulator after carbon filtration. Another indication of its purity is
it is very corrosive and simply guzzles anything that will dissolve in
it....which is what its use is in the human body.



Larry
--
Search youtube for "Depleted Uranium"
The ultimate dirty bomb......

On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 03:31:14 +0000, Larry wrote:

The test is the TDS meter and electrical conductivity. Distilled water
is an insulator. These carbon-based chemicals you list attach themselves
very nicely to the carbon molecules in the activated carbon filter. That
filter gets quite hot in their presence during use, even at the tiny
trickle of water coming from a small distiller.

Gasoline is an insulator. Conductivity tests only detect ions.
Hydrocarbons do not ionize and are really good insulators. They fill
transformers that operate at hundreds of thousands of volts, with oil.
By the way, there is no such thing as a carbon molecule.

Casady