“Hey, can you pass the sponge?”
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We have 38 grains hardness here. I hear you.
I have had limited success boiling our water (hard, rolling boil) for ~3-5 minutes, letting it cool undisturbed on the stove. Solids settle to the bottom of the pot. Doubtless you have already seen the solids at the bottom of your pot when you have been boiling your water for pasta, etc.
When pouring, leave the last several inches of water in the pot.
Carefully pour off the “top” part of the water into something that pours well, like a large clean Pyrex measuring cup with a nice spout. Let that settle, undisturbed, maybe ~1 hour.
Decant the “top” part of that water over a paper coffeemaker filter clipped to and lining the inside of a clean funnel, to feed into a clean jar.
It’s definitely not distilled water, but for low effort, low energy this does get a lot of the chunky bits out.
I “floc” the community pool with chems purpose-made. My guess is probably none of them are listed ok to put in a CPAP machine.
Red wine drinkers may well be familiar with much of this decanting process.
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Starting this process now. Sigh. Really thought I anticipated our needs. Oh well.
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“No, the other end. Dammit, et tu, Bruté?”
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Put May 2 on your calendar. That is the projected date for the last hospital bed to be filled. Things fall apart before that. The delays in doing anything are going to kill lots of people before and lots more after this.
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Well that’s a reassuring sign about how Europe is handling this
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As long as you don’t run out of chocolate/beer/tequila/whatever-is-mission-critical, I think you and your fam should cut you some slack!
On this planet, we still have a breathable atmosphere and if we are lucky, rains at the right times. Sometimes when I’m in need of a pep talk when I am facing long odds, I put on Apollo 13 or The Martian because we could be even more screwed than we are right now. (Yes yes, I know only one is an event from real history.)
Plus, we do have plenty of really good people working the COVID-19 problem.
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Irony, man. It burns.
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I make some really good mead, and have gallons in the basement. We are good on all fronts except that one. Sigh.
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You might try ringing your local motor factors.
They stock it for topping up car batteries.
They may not know what your talking about if you ask for distilled water, so ask for ‘Battery Top-up Water’
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It wouldn’t be completely sterile, but if you are at the point of using tap water, what about a stove top distill to take out the hard water? Pot of water, foil to catch and funnel steam, and bowl to catch it in?
We can’t have you dying from sleep apnea in the middle of this. People are being stupid. You’re not supposed to drink distilled water (which is what some are no doubt buying it for).
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Philly passed a law last year mandating that stores must accept cash.
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In general it’s perfectly fine to drink (at least the store-bought stuff which is distilled from the same source as the regular drinking water). In my experience it just doesn’t taste as good as regular water since it doesn’t have any of the minerals that give it flavor or that add nutritional value.
(Now, heavy water on the other hand…)
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Not an option if one lives in center city.
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