Could these be removed via evaporative distillation?
I’m aware the treatment plants don’t distill water, but it could be useful on the personal level. I could probably distill 20 gallons a day without much draw on the solar production.
Not to mention the astronomical amount of energy required to do that. Boiling water is insanely energy intensive at scale you would basically need to dedicate nuclear power plants to treatment facilities
Sure but you’re going to have fairly Limited flow rate or need an astronomically expensive solar still to be able to do the kind of volume at treatment plant needs to be able to do
I wonder how much unwanted material would be left to deal with after you evaporate off the clean water? And what would you do with it?
I’m not saying this as a deterent or to suggest you are wrong to consider trying(its an interesting idea!) I’m just genuinely curious how much there’d be and what it would look like.
If you ever do this and find out please post it here!
Yup. Same as Viagra, cocaine, birth control, diabetes meds, penicillin, thyroid meds, high blood pressure meds, high cholesterol meds, etc etc etc.
AFAIK there are zero treatment plants in the world that are capable of removing forever chemicals and the drugs we take to get high or stay healthy.
Welcome to the 21st century. Ain’t it grand!
Could these be removed via evaporative distillation?
I’m aware the treatment plants don’t distill water, but it could be useful on the personal level. I could probably distill 20 gallons a day without much draw on the solar production.
That’s about the only way to do it. Then you’d have to add the minerals, etc that would be missing from it.
Not to mention the astronomical amount of energy required to do that. Boiling water is insanely energy intensive at scale you would basically need to dedicate nuclear power plants to treatment facilities
Not with a solar still. I mean sure it requires a lot of energy, but that energy is “free” for all intents and purposes
Sure but you’re going to have fairly Limited flow rate or need an astronomically expensive solar still to be able to do the kind of volume at treatment plant needs to be able to do
Certainly not free to build though
RO can’t do it?
I wonder how much unwanted material would be left to deal with after you evaporate off the clean water? And what would you do with it?
I’m not saying this as a deterent or to suggest you are wrong to consider trying(its an interesting idea!) I’m just genuinely curious how much there’d be and what it would look like.
If you ever do this and find out please post it here!
But it back down the drain /s
Reverse osmosis makes water pure.