Marshall, Figuring the whole thing out will be quite a chore. If you view the cost of the tap water as trivial and look at the still itself as sunk cost, I figured that my machine at my electricity rates is costing about 0.25 US [Dare I call them "dollars?"] per gallon. It is 1300 watts and makes 8 g. in 24 hrs and cost 900 frog pelts. I have had it several years and the only maintenance has been cleaning the lime out of the pot, and vacuuming the dust off of the condenser fins. It is providing drinking/cooking water for three small households; the water I use for CS is only a small part of it's output. It would probably last 10 years or more if just used for making personal CS.
Is there anyone out there who has a handy formula for total life cycle costs of a process so we don't have to try and reinvent that particular wheel? A little program that we could just plug the data into? JOH -----Original Message----- From: James Osbourne, Holmes [SMTP:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 9:38 PM To: '[email protected]' Subject: RE: CS>distilled water Hi Marshall, I have been looking for a small gas fired still for several years. I don't think anyone makes one. Probably the control train will be too expensive to be marketable. JOH -----Original Message----- From: Marshall Dudley [SMTP:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 2:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: CS>distilled water Any idea on the energy costs for making distilled water at home? I have been trying to find a natural gas distiller, but have thus far been unable to. Marshall Tai-Pan wrote: > Hi all, > > Many years ago when the list was small just about everyone had a Sears > distiller. There were other distillers but the Sears was the main one. Never > have heard of any problems with Sears distilled water. Mine still works > perfectly. Make all my CS water and drinking water for myself and several > friends with it. > > Bless you Bob Lee > > [email protected] wrote: > > > I know of 4 families that have the Sears distiller. I've beeen using mine > > for over 8 yeaars and make my cs with the water as well. I'm very pleased > > with it. Only problem I've heard of was that one had to have a new on off > > switch installed. Betty Ft. Lauderdale > > > > -- > > The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. > > > > To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: > > [email protected] -or- [email protected] > > with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. > > > > To post, address your message to: [email protected] > > Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> > > -- > oozing on the muggy shore of the gulf coast > [email protected]
