Anybody else make their own water?

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I run a dehumidifier in the basement. The water that comes out of it should theoretically be pure h2o. I use this to mix up all my dilutable chemicals. I store what's left in rinsed out washer fluid bottles I get from work (fleet of about 60 ambulances).
 
I have a Ro/DI unit for when I had my Reef tanks that makes pure 0 TDS water
 
I don't know if that is true. I have a hose on my dehumidifier running to a basement drain and the water has left a sediment trail on my cement. Pure water wouldn't do that.
 
"She" uses the leftover water in the tank (that remains below the hose outlet) to water the various house plants.

Bill
 
BillE said:
"She" uses the leftover water in the tank (that remains below the hose outlet) to water the various house plants.
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Hey, that's a good idea for that water. I'm not sure I would use it for anything else, although theoretically clean, anything that's floating around in the air that gets drawn into the unit will get washed down with the condensate...dust, mold spores, etc.

I know most dehumidifiers have some sort of filter, but most of them don't do very much.
 
Down here, we have many "water stores", and places like Culligan also sell water, as also their water treatment products-services.

Ours sells both drinking water, and Deionized, which the DI Water may be the ticket for yourself. At .20/.25 Gal it is not that expensive.

Single Step Distilled from anywhere, at about .67/gal should be suitable enough for mixing car care chemicals-products. I've never seen cheap single step distilled water become unstable, and have molds-etc form.

I would think this wouldn't be the case with waters extracted from a Dehumidifier. Mark
Mark
 
Per: http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum...s/20306-how-write-good-title-your-thread.html...
I must say that this is a clever, "catchy" thread title you have used!!


-At first I thought you were referencing one of the resulting end-stages of oxidation-reduction reactions,
(redox reactions), that occurs during we human-beings': "normal" cell-respiration processes. :D

TO WIT:



Anyway...
Good usage of your dehumidifier's "greywater". :props:


:)

Bob
 
Unless you have bottles of hydrogen gas and oxygen, I didn't think it was possible to create water from scratch. Learn something new every day. :thankyousign:
 
I really don't know if my discharge water coming out of my dehumidifier is trusty. There are days it smells funky.!
 
StoneRaizer said:
Unless you have bottles of hydrogen gas and oxygen, I didn't think it was possible to create water from scratch.
Learn something new every day. :thankyousign:

That's what else, besides cellular respiration, I was thinking about also.
:thankyousign:...StoneRaizer...for pointing it out. :xyxthumbs:
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Now...Although Hydrogen and Oxygen gases will 'mix' at room temperature,
with no evident chemical reaction resulting in obtaining water...

Go ahead and introduce... sufficient energy (like a "spark") to this mixture...And:
I'd doubt very seriously if a person would ever see the water that was formed during this:
Highly explosive exothermic-reaction up the ol' ying-yang!!!



:eek:

Bob
 
I fill up some water jugs with Millipore water at work. If it's good enough for RNA/TNA work, it's good enough for me.
 
FUNX725 said:
Now...Although Hydrogen and Oxygen gases will 'mix' at room temperature,
with no evident chemical reaction resulting in obtaining water...

Go ahead and introduce... sufficient energy (like a "spark") to this mixture...And:
I'd doubt very seriously if a person would ever see the water that was formed during this:
Highly explosive exothermic-reaction up the ol' ying-yang!!!



:eek:

Bob
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:eek: is right! [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak59r3B5aYc]Hydrogen mixed with oxygen - YouTube[/video]

Google "mixing hydrogen and oxygen" for other examples not involving water appearing out of thin air.
 
If you only need a few gallons here and there what about a Zero water. It's like the Culligan drinking pitchers. If I remember correct it should be right around $40 and u can buy replacement filters. If it takes the TDS'S down to zero it would be just like an RO system
 
FUNX725 said:
Now...Although Hydrogen and Oxygen gases will 'mix' at room temperature,
with no evident chemical reaction resulting in obtaining water...

Go ahead and introduce... sufficient energy (like a "spark") to this mixture...And:
I'd doubt very seriously if a person would ever see the water that was formed during this:
Highly explosive exothermic-reaction up the ol' ying-yang!!!
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Oh come on Bob, you don't need to get up to fission-weapon levels to make some water, my 9th grade science teacher did it with a little hydrogen and oxygen in a (dry) half-pint milk carton from the cafeteria...I forget how he lit it, but he showed us the water droplets formed inside the exploded carton. I guess you could never do that today in science class, eh?
 
Setec Astronomy said:
Oh come on Bob, you don't need to get up to fission-weapon levels to make some water,
my 9th grade science teacher did it with a little hydrogen and oxygen in a (dry) half-pint milk carton from the cafeteria...
I forget how he lit it, but he showed us the water droplets formed inside the exploded carton.

Our chemistry/physics teacher loved to use the ol' Bunsen Burners for his I classroom-experiments

I guess you could never do that today in science class, eh?<<<No way!
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StoneRaizer did say bottles...
Makes me think of the size of the bottles, for the bottled-gases we used in industrial settings.
StoneRaizer said:
Unless you have bottles of hydrogen gas and oxygen
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Sure it was an exaggeration on my part...
Just thinking of the possible consequences if someone wanted to try this at home...You never know.

Hind-sight being 20/20 and all that:
I should have added a disclaimer.

Bob
 
Yeah, my bad too. I was picturing in my head a couple of bottles (think nitrous bottles in drag racing) with valves and lines attached to each, open both valves and have water appear magically where the two lines meet.

Knew I should've taken chemistry class in high school. :doh:
 
ekennett said:
I run a dehumidifier in the basement. The water that comes out of it should theoretically be pure h2o. I use this to mix up all my dilutable chemicals. I store what's left in rinsed out washer fluid bottles I get from work (fleet of about 60 ambulances).
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That sounds gross. Lots of stuff in the air, sweat, skin, bacteria, ect......
Have you tested it?
 
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