Drinking AC Condensate

would this work with the car a/c?

 

AC units are typically full of all sorts of nasty mould, but if the water is properly filtered and aerated, it should be fine.

 

I would rather drink a nice cold beer, if given a choice!!!

 

Our condensate line poking out from our FL home had a slow drip.............drip..............drip, etc...
I can't imagine GALLONS available daily.
Maybe beneficial to someone who ran their a/c at 60 all day/night..and kept their windows open?

 

Living in a semi-arid desert I get no condensate even when turning down the portable-AC unit to 60F. The house's AC is usually around 72F and I never see anything dripping.

 

The nasty stuff in the air gets absorbed by the moisture forming on the AC evaporator coils. It would be like drinking your farts and whatever else was contaminating the air.in your car.

And as someone else said, mold that forms in the moisture in the AC.

+, you don't get a lot of condensate unless you live in a humid area, and humid areas aren't usually the ones with water shortages. There are exceptions, but more often than not, places with low humidity climates are the ones with water shortages.

 

Isn't this the way they make hard 90 proof in a still!

 

$3500 to grab that seems unbelievably expensive.

 

That includes the cost of the AC system. You don't want to drink water from any old AC condenser; they weren't designed for producing potable water. The one described here includes a special coated condenser unit, plus filtering.

It wouldn't work for me, since we don't have air conditioning. Maybe with global warming we will eventually need it, but not so much for now. On the other hand, water is one thing we have in spades.

Tom

 

Here, too. No AC, either, although the unit in the car sees infrequent use.

But, I wonder if this 'water from air' idea might work for dry coastal areas. How feasible would it be to extract water from a moist onshore breeze?

 

It's called "dew harvesting". Here is one of many links:

Dew Harvesting

Tom

 

Oh, look at that. Thank you. I love it when I invent something and then there it is.

 

I like mine with a twist...

 

That what comes from the insides of the coils, not the outside.