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Hi,Hope this email finds you well. I haven't been to your blog much recently- working a lot. I noticed you had a couple of posts about the water situation in Ohio I think it was.I just wanted to pass this along in case you hadn't seen it. I have only seen this from ads, so I don't have any direct experience. But it seems interesting.
It is a machine that condenses drinking water from the air. It says it can do up to 8 gallons a day. I had seen ads for it before, and thought it seemed kind of impractical. But having seen several instances of now of communities having electricity, but no water, I am starting to wonder if it might be useful.Thanks.- Jason
Hey Jason, thanks for your
email.
The gadget in the link costs 1,600 USd, I found another one from the
same company in Amazon that sells for 1,100 USd, but before anyone jump into
buying a “water generator” lets think about this for a second.
Whenever we spend our hard
earned money we should always ask ourselves a few basic questions. The first
one I usually ask myself is do I really need this. In terms of preparedness
there are a few “essential” items. We all need water and food, sure enough. Buying
a good gun, supplies, having a reliable vehicle and quality gear, it all makes
sense. We understand the essentials, the
“must haves” but also the “nice to haves” and the “waste of money”. I’m no water expert but I do know basic
physics and to me “water generator” sounds like a sales gimmick. Maybe there’s
some new technology that I’m not aware of but to me this sounds like a
glorified air dehumidifier, which in Amazon costs around 224 bucks if you want
to get a cheaper “water generator”, and many of you probably own one already.
I think you should have
water stored, as explained in previous posts, its readily available and you can
store literally tons of it for free. I believe you should have a good filter,
one like the one our sponsor the Berkey Guy sells would do nicely. I believe
you should have bleach to make water safe to drink as well as back up. Now,
buying a “water generator”? Again, maybe I’m missing the point, but to me it
sounds like an awful waste of money. Money that could be better spent elsewhere,
maybe having an actual water well dug, or just saving it up for a rainy day. Sixteen
hundred bucks buys you a lot of peace of mind when things get tough, at the
very least, putting it in gold and silver, or keeping it in cash, sounds like a
better idea if you ask me.
We have to be smart about
preparedness people. Not only how we spend our money, but how we spend our time
as well. There’s so much junk floating around, the internet is full of fear
mongering nonsense disguised as preparedness, just reading it is a waste of
your precious time, at the very least, or in the worst case, its depressing and
even downright harmful.
Be smart about how you spend
your time, and money.
Take care folks,
FerFAL
3 comments:
When I was younger and more foolish with money I purchased a similar system. It was loud, never produced enough water and required constant maintenance. After about a year I unplugged it and put it in the garage. I replaced it with a high quality gravity filter and some water storage.
I wouldn't trust the berkley products. They had manufacture ring defects a few years ago and did not stand behind their product. I had bought several black elements and they started to come unglued. When I contacted the berkey guy he had me contact the manufacturer. They told me keep trying the ones I bought and they would replace the ones that fail. After they all failed over the next few months I called back and they told me they would only prorate the cost of replacing the elements. It took about 6 months for 3 years worth of elements to fail one after another. By that time the company had completely changed their tune from my original contact.
Hi, years ago I purchased an Ecoloblue. It sounds good in theory, and it works, but it requires a lot of maintenance. It works like a dehumidifier, but there is a constant threat of mold and algae in the wet, dark inner workings, which is part of why they tell you not to drink dehumidifier water. You constantly have to replace filters, hoses, and clean and disinfect everything. If you don't the water gets nasty.
A Berkey 2.5 gal with 4 black filters and 4 post filters has been a much better investment.
Plus, the Ecoloblue requires power and a constant supply of spare parts.
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