swapping out the mineral cartridge every five years, which a subscription program delivers when it’s time.
That’s funny - a subscription program for cartridges that are swapped out every 5 years, when the whole system is rated to last 10 years… so you’re “subscribing” to 1 replacement set of cartridges to arrive 5 years after installation?
This seems great if it works as advertised, though. It’s expensive, as the article notes, but it could be huge for areas where other clean water options just aren’t viable.
Probably because this entire mineral supplement is BS anyway and just based on a highly successful FUD marketing campaign by bottled water and isotonic drink producers some years ago. With a typical diet the mineral intake through water is not very significant compared to what you get through food.
Maybe, but distilled water tastes bad somehow
Yeah, it’s nasty. The mineralization isn’t for nutrients, it’s totally for the taste. Drinking condensate without adding minerals would taste as bad as water left out for a few days, yeegh
If you turn it into sparkling water it tastes perfectly fine.
Sparkling water filter instead of mineral filter Negative 10x more expensive, positive more burps
Really? Someone’s picky. It’s literally just water dude
Great point, and I’m sure the cartridge isn’t very complicated to switch out - might just need to see the manual… although I’m not familiar with this thing, so I don’t know. Is the subscription program for changing out the filters halfway through the product’s expected life cycle a part of the company selling the water filter?
No they do not. This kind of nonsense keeps popping up and the math never ever works out. They’re always just glorified dehumidifiers, because the energy needed to achieve what they promise can never be adequately provided except direcrly from the power grid and then it is still magnitudes more efficient to simply find a water source and filter and provide that rather than whatever this nonsense is.
indeed, even the reverse osmosis filtration of sea water would be an order of magnitude more energy efficient.
Deserts further inland just need metal piping from external water sources and are dirt cheap to do relatively; especially at scale.
