DIY Solar Water Distiller! - Simple Solar Water Distilling - Easy DIY (for survival/SHTF)
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- DIY Solar Water Distilling! Simple Solar Water Distiller! Easy DIY. Great for survival/SHTF situations. made using 2 clear (plastic or glass) bottles and glue (or tape). fill one bottle with dirty/or saltwater. then connect the second bottle and set in the sun. within a few minutes the water begins to evaporate and the other bottle collects the clean distilled water vapor. tips: make sure the bottles have an airtight connection. prop up bottles at a slight angle so as the dirty/or saltwater starts to evaporate - the max. amount of water vapor will travel up to the higher collection container. works best in bright sun.
I appreciate how you showed us how it worked first. and then you showed us how it was made afterwards. about 90% of the other RUclips videos do it the other way around. and sometimes they don't even show you how it works at all once you get to the end. they just waste your time with a bunch of needless chatter. anyways, great video! thanks!
hi there and thanks. yep, i agree.
@@desertsun02 wanted to reiterate, thank you so much for the anti-clickbait - love the video
Drill another hole on the bottom of the freshwater part of the bottle and allow it to drip out into another container.
ditto
I was thinking the same thing!
backtobasics 95 - just drill hole where fresh water collects and then seal a small tube inside, just below water level, so that instead of running back forward , it runs into tube into larger jug with lid or another water bottle sealed to prevent evaporation. Probably best through top of another cap, when full, just replace with solid cap and another bottle with runoff into lid again as a system ongoing.
backtobasics 95 - I am meaning to put a small hole and tube near where the clean water accumulating underneath, then fasten a tube for excess water to drain ( on bricks) . This would only be in dire circumstances where there would be no drinkable water, yes plastic does leach estrogens. If you wanted to try a different method for camping , there is a video I saw using 2 glass bottles, 2 loaf pans and sand to stabilize bottles while heating, then using cooler water to prevent collection bottle from breaking. U would have to look for it though , as I can't link . Cheers
Jacob Orton
u saw it too! the drain.
then get a larger soda bottle and maximize the yield...this idea of his can be built upon.
Got paid $50 for an article for Boy's Life doing the same thing with Plastic Bags back in the early 1980s - the idea of shading the "receiver" does help a great deal. Also a cloth moistened with dirty or salty water, then laid over the "receiver" highly increases the output if there is any breeze.
Awesome!
Try shading the receiver with foil on the top and using foil under the bottle with the contaminated water to reflect sun back into it. Also add black or dark material on the contaminated side. Charcoal will work. That will improve the efficiency!
robert jeffery would you put the charcoal up near the cap of the contaminated bottle?
robert jeffery Agreed
Connect it to a tube which connected to container
Brilliant in its simplicity. And there's no shortage of plastic bottles!
Shouldn't be drinking out of plastic in the first place. ESPECIALLY if used as a solar distilling device.
@13thExit Strategy precisely.
@13thExit Strategy uh oh here comes Aristotle...
That's a great idea! You could even drill a hole in the "clean water" bottle, where the water collects, insert a straw, and have a catch pan underneath to collect the water. That way, you wouldn't have to unscrew the bottles to collect the clean water. You'd only have to remove the dirty or salt water bottle, etc., to put new water in to be purified.
you just saved someone that will end up on a deserted island! Awesome Idea!!! bottles are everywhere!
If in a survival situation just get ya knife out and cut the top off a smaller bottel and the botttom of a bigger one. Fold the bottom of the bigger one inwards so it creats a pocket, then put some salt water in the smaller bottle and slide it inside and stick it in the sun. Works the same, just easier when stranded. Great video! Always good to learn multiple ways of doing the same thing!
Thank you for posting it his. As a mom I always talk to my kids about this survival stuff ESPECIALLY NOW!
I’ve always used the bowl in a bowl covered with plastic method but this is so genius. You won’t lose water in sealed units like this (or lose very very little depending on how well you attach the bottles to each other).
Plus you can drink it right from the bottle.
Cover the receiving bottle with a wet, or moist cloth. Evaporation will cool the receiver making it faster.
Even if I never have to resort to making fresh water from otherwise dirty water the technology and simplicity of the survival method is pure gold......the Sun had better keep shining.
You can also fill the dirty bottle with chopped leaves or any greenery. Won’t produce as much water but will work if you don’t have any dirty water to begin with
I also saw somewhere to tie a plastic bag over a branch of greenery to get some clean water
The simple principle of this still, along with some of the comments below, leads me to a variety of other ideas. Very good starter for new ideas. Being able to think outside the box, as this video illustrates as compared to some desalinization stills available for sale( expensive at that) opens up a whole new source of drinking water.
Should we think outside the bottle? No box was used here....
Fast, Simple + Very Doable for anyone👍Great video, should help some in the future
This is so simple and so obvious once you see it. Thanks.
SHIT! in a survival situation i seem to have forgot to bring my cordless drill. lol
use a pocket knife
Then heat up a stick and melt a hole
mark sharp You're one of those people lacking enough imagination to improvise the method of the build, but witty enough to make a smart ass comment degrading someone else's efforts. You can "drill" holes in the caps with a pocket knife or sharp stick/stone. If you're capable of making fire, melting the two caps together instead of adhesive would work. If you're not capable of making fire, pine pitch/tar or even clay would do the job. As for the bottles themselves, there are probably as many of them laying around in the world as there are trees.
@A Google User, you never know these says, common sense isn't really that common. Maybe Mark Sharp just isn't that sharp.
mark sharp lollololololololol
Thank you for making and sharing this video.
Plastic doesn't seem like the best thing to be using healthwise if this were to be used as a means for producing drinking water, but the video shows perfectly how the distillation process works, and in a way that is clear and provides a method that anyone can use to try it out.
Well done!
U can do it with glass beer bottles if u prefer
If you are dying out of thirst, plastic may not be that bad after all.
Investigations done into the sodis method using water disinfection with sunlight, in which uses PET plastic bottles shows that the leakage of plasticizer is not a health problem. This is encouraging.
in a SHTF scenario, I think not having water would not be the best thing healthwise
this was for survival situation, the ocean was polute by plastic bottle, you can almost find plastic whased on beach on any island, but not gonna find easy glass bottle or stainless steel bottle
Here is what you do.
1. You run a plastic tube between the two bottles.
2. The part of the tube that extends into the dirty water section is short. It is NEVER allowed to touch the dirty water.
3. The part of the tube that extends into the clean water section is long. It nearly goes to the bottom of the upside down container. It collects a lot of water!
4. When the space in the upper, clean water container is nearly used up, you unscrew the lower, dirty water container off. Remember, you kept the tube clean. Now, insert the clean water bottle right side up, unscrew the top, Now you have almost two liters of clean water. Cap it and put it aside.
Hey people! It is really simple.
You could able to optimize the condensation by covering the distilled water bottle with wet piece of clothes or any textile tissue. This will make less temperature in the distilled water bottle and also water will be more cold for immediate consumption.
Really like this model. In fact, making myself a couple of the 'lid transfer' points in advance using say the two most common plastic bottle sizes means I may not even need to carry a bottle with me, just the lids. Sadly plastic bottles are everywhere so locating them should be easy enough in most parts of the world. Important for people to not wait too long to gather the fresh water as they'll risk mixing the two parts when they pick them up
Pre-make the glued double double bottle cap using the most common size caps, then carry that around as EDC, takes up virtually no room or weight. So when you're stuck somewhere you have the means to make this set up with bottles littered on the ground.
Good idea
Clever idea. Aside from thoughts already mentioned: glue the caps together first, then drill them.
+Color MehJewish
true...the joint needn't be water tight anyway...its vapor going thru it...
in fact...if no tape handy...u could tie the necks together with saran wrap type stuff or even some cloth...in a pinch.
ahahahahah yeah right clever idea ahahahahah neeeeewb
I thought drilling after gluing would work well, but the bond has to be really strong, otherwise the shear force of the drill will break the bond of the glue holding the caps together.
you don't have to glue the caps together, just heat them up with a flame and stick them together. instant plastic weld
You dont need the caps,bricks drill,glue , just make a angled sand mound ,then push the bottles laying in the mound with the tops firmly together , the steam from the lower bottle will rise and enter the upper bottle , cover the upper bottle with sand to help keep it cool to and all will happen faster
Awesome, thanks for showing how you made it and showing the take off process.
Ingenious. Thanks! may I suggest placing 1 or 2 layers of t-shirt fabric over the receiver and keeping it wet constantly with ocean water. It will work both as a sun shade as well as an evaporative cooler to improve condensation. By the way, in a survival situation, you can just duct-tape the 2 bottles together, end to end at the mouths. No need for caps or glues. There is always duct tape.
I don't think it would work as well. This would cool down the air inside top bottle, sure. More condensation, sure. But... cool air is slightly heavier and tends to go down. Thus, straight into the first bottle, cooling it down. Meaning, overall less evaporation, too. Since it works better the hotter and the more sun there is, it means the evaporation part is way more important than the condensation part.
rmwtsou
It works much better with the caps because if you tape the bottles together, you will probably lose some of the clean water back down into the lower bottle while you are trying to unwrap the tape from around the two necks. Keep it simple!
Use a hot knife to carve a hole on the cap and then fuse them together by melting,
I was wondering what to do if a power drill with full charge doesn't wash up on the beach also!
Nice little gadget to take with you on travel
Do both: glue and bond. Can achieve a better IP rating that way.
Great idea in a pinch. Could definitely be scaled up for home use, maybe glass carboys or a custom container with a large basin for collecting
What about two of those five gallon water jugs?
Thanks so much for sharing this!! Nice simple, easy to find item's; that can be utilized in an emergency setting. My head is swimming on how I could use this information to build something on a bigger scale now, before shtf. Again, thanks!
hi and you're welcome!
i like the design. thank you for sharing this with us.
It's good to see you back! I've been missing your videos. Thanks for this ultra-simple idea!
One other thing, if you had a short bit of plastic tubing and angled the the top bottle down you could fill up the bottle at the top.
Not bad. Very expedient. The only issue is how much you can make at any given time as eventually the purified of water will start dripping into the dirty water. Transferring it like you did would be a careful task so as not to accidentally tip the still and mix the water.
Would like to see an update version that drips full contents over time without crossover.
using tarps or plastic bags you can make a similar thing on a larger scale on the beach if youre stuck with no fresh water. Digging a 2 holes lined with the plastic and covered with plastic and fill one of the holes with salt water, let it evaporate and fill into the other plastic lined hole.
Maybe if you keep cool the clean bottle, by keeping it under the shade of damp cloth, it might speed up the collection of the water. A humble suggestion from Pakistan.
Wow nice way to do!
If you are able to make fire you can do it even very faster,
but then with bottles of glass. Only the second bottle has to warm up.
Remind that the glass is not allowed to contact the fire, else it breaks.
What about wrapping a wet cloth around the fresh water bottle to lower the temperature?
Definitely you should link this to the yachties fraternity. A lot of them use "water-makers", which can fail when far from spare parts. Would be easy to store necessary components for times when the SHTF 😅
seems the few ideas I had have already been mentioned. was going to suggest glue first then cut, that way the are same and make a hole in the "fresh" water bottle so it can drain to another. Didn't look like it would hold much without draining it. A good video, think I might give this a go and see how much I could make during a day camp.
I absolutely love this for DIY water at home, however as a survival tool in the wild I somehow doubt you'd have a drill... Maybe a knife? But that would be a bit risky and would take a while.
Me who thanks for getting directly to the point and the video.
Even leaving the labels on the condensing bottles will improve results keeping the bottles on the clean side will help condensation form
F***ing Brilliant!!! Love this simple distillation method. 1000% will use.
Cool Idea, I was thinking if you connected a hose in between the two caps you could put the fresh one down low and the dirty water up high with a slope in the tube and the whole bottle should then be able to distill.
Great. in addition to this you could do something to cool the fresh water bottle .I think that would make it faster. maybe not expose it to the sun would be enough .
@@Saleh_jal I'm thinking if you buried the bottle up to the neck to keep it out of the sun.
I'm gonna try putting a beer in there. Make me some shine.
Do it
Did it work?
Hell ye, America
You'd have to get time it perfectly, as the alcohol *will* distill first, but after some time water will also start evaporating into the collection container
He might died lol
Really like this idea. Understanding this is survival stuff, wouldn't you contaminate when adding thru the transfer caps?
You can even use a sponge inside the source bottle to increase the surface area of the contaminated water for quicker evaporation.
No need. The humidity inside the source bottle will reach 100% very quickly regardless and no more can be evaporated, until it gets condensed out in the condensation bottle. Also, the sponge will get clogged with salt soon and would be difficult to get out to clean.
Having a plastic tube seems to be a good thing to keep handy. Put it through the tops of the bottles to allow the clean water bottle to lay better and get more water in it. Or put a kink into the bottom of the dirty water bottle so the other bottle can hang lower and get more water in it without getting the clean water dirty.
I'd be sure to rinse the bottles after drilling holes into the caps to remove all plastic particulate. Great video.
good idea 👍🙂
BPA free bottles would be better but I'm sure that wouldn't be much of a concern during SHTF. Great video
hi there and thanks. glass and bpa free is the way to go (if you can). but you're right - it's not a concern during SHTF.
BPA free is not a safety guarantee. Plastic is definitely not the materiel you want for this use (with heat).
Putting things in perspective, much of what you eat and drink on a daily basis is contaminated with plastic residue. The amounts which would contaminate the water after the distillation here, would be of the same level or less, than eating hot food taken out of a plastic take away container. Few people would consider that a concern.
Like I'm going to die of dehydration and someone brings me the evaporated water but I don't want to drink it because, there could be pba in the plastic...lol
How many of these would it take to make a full days ration of clean water for one adult? Neat idea but problematic in the real world. Turning salty sea water into potable water is where the OPEC desert countries should be spending their oil money on research. When the oil money runs out those countries without fresh water are going to decay back into dust.
Add a tube where the water collects in the clean water vessel route it to a small filter suspended over a containment vessel. Another thing I would do to aid in solar heating is get a 16 oz black monster AL can. Cut the can flat roll it up and insert that into the dirty vessel it should try to take the shape of the dirty vessel. Black AL can should collect more solar energy and speed up the process.
FRUGAL PRIUS-RV could you just cut the top off the can and slide the plastic bottle in?
Super Idea man! 🏆
and in a pinch...u could just wrap the necks together with plastic wrap or cloth...if there was not even tape handy...this idea could be built upon ...will be working on it myself. 👍
Perhaps a hole could be drilled where it collects in the bottle to have collection across an array.
Did you do any testing to see how much in produced in how long and at what temperature?
Exactly. Longer bottom tube too
On the rez we bury copper pipe in ground & put sea water in a pail - set in sun & pull up copper pipe in pipe that is cold & run it in a loop on Glass looped pain water is around 5 gallons a day
If you attach the caps with a tube so that the collector is vertical, it would be much easier to collect a decent amount without spilling or contaminating. Also shading the collector to keep it cool would speed things along, as well as adding reflectors around the contaminated water. Bare metal such as foil or sheet metal, or even mirrors would help.
only problem is that with no drainage system, the clean will run back into the dirty. Cut a hole in the bottom of the pool of water to allow drainage. another thing I've seen in the comments is the complaining about the drill. You can easily use your knife to cut a hole in the lids and you should have a roll of tape with you or some good paracord to then keep the bottles together!
Looking for a bit larger scale for the folks of Project Atticus and other offshore sail cruisers. Thanks for the idea.
And the condensed side should be covered with a wet cloth for ev a positive cooling.
The only problem is will this make enough water for survival?
Wow! The video along with comments here are golden doors! Opening the brain to great ideas!
How about this one: I read a few years ago of the health benifits of blue glass windows and blue glass bottles. So I have ten huge blue (Budwiser deluxe beer) bottles which I can fill with crap water and duct-tape them to my old glass viegar bottles and set in the afternoon sun while I drink another cold one for the cause. Brings binge drinking to a whole new🍺 level.🍺🍕🍻
health benefits of blue glass? lol lady check your meds.
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Steam = condensate
Great video!
I feel like this design can be improved upon with just a little bit more effort hahaha. a thin plastic juice container or a clear plastic bag in a frame if all else fails resting horizontally with some black plastic under it and on the sides to attract and retain heat, a small PVC attachment line set up a a drip to your clean catch to prevent backflow of good water. fellas, I think you should try for round 2
looks good.....and simple.......glass would be the way for every day.....survival time? pretty simple and good thanks
hi there and thanks. yep, about as simple as i could think of. essentially free to make. as long as you can scrounge up two plastic or glass bottles...
@spikedpsycho people get almost all of their minerals from the food they eat. Not from the water they drink.
I'll be sure to bring my drill and some glue with me just in case I need to build one of these. Lol
If you're not creative enough to find another way to attach them, then you probably wouldn't make it very long anyways
Hi, just curious what kind of glue you used for glueing the caps together. Most plastic bottles are made of PE or PP and these materials cannot be glued with most if not all available glues.
Yeaaa.. my same wonder
I would'v used a solvent adhesive - liquid that'd chemically disolve the plastic & re-join a few minutes as one piece ... no glue
If you left them for a long time, wouldn't the celan water just spill onto the dirty/salt water bottle though??
If you were in a pinch and didn't have a drill could you just tape two bottles together? Also if it wasn't sunny could you put this above a fire to evaporate the water? Obviously being careful not to melt the bottle
What is the output rate you got?
i.e. what amount of water, for how long of waiting?
It doesn't yield much, that's why you prepare several sets. But it works well.
You have to make a secondary reservoir underneath otherwise it will start to slightly drip flow back into the lower container after leveling out.
Keep the upper bottle where the distilled water collected in the shade or covered by a very white cloth. Put mirrors or reflective objects reflect more sunlight at lower bottle. The lower bottle carrying the dirty water should have a very black cloth underneath it.
I will try a setup.with some glas 5 liter bottles, and put one in a solar oven to see if I can speed up the process... I can also imagine connecting some tubes to several bottles with water and all coming together in one reservoir...
Genius! Simple and easy.
What if you surround the distilled water plastic with a cloth?????
and place foil under the dirty and salt water plastic to make it even hotter????
What if its Bottle to Plastic, cus glass gets hotter faster, right??
Would it make sense to put the drinking water bottle under shadow to increase condensation?
You could also
can you attach a tube or another bottle to the cleaned water bottle so that gravity brings the water down instead of having to unscrew the bottles from each other?
... seems you would not not be able to get very much clean water at one time they way they are attached.
would it be possible to saw the very end of one of the caps... and use one cap to screw both bottles together? (the cap would need to fit both bottles & the screw thread would need to go quite far up the inside of the cap)
does metal absorb heat better would it be better to use a metal can? or would putting little stones inside the dirty water bottle heat it quicker?
Do we have to worry about plastic breaking down (from sun exposure) and contaminating the drinkable water? Would a glass setup work better?
hi there. nope that's not an issue (at least not in the short term). it takes a long time for anything to leach out of plastic and into the water (weeks and months *not just one day). note that water companies store their bottled water for weeks sometimes in hot warehouses before it's sold to the public and that is considered okay. this device just collects water for a few hours at a time. technically glass would be the best (especially for long term use) but plastic is fine too.
@@desertsun02 thank you for your reply! i find this DIY water purification stuff so fascinating. :)
You could also make a hole underneath the bottle and add a straw there and place a bowl so all the water would collect there
Awesome survival hack
Thanks! Life saving stuff here..
Great Simple Idea! Thanks. But better with Glass or Steel Container paint in black on the Hot Side, to avoid Bad Chimicals from Plastic 😉
hi. glass is always the best for long term use, but plastic is not bad for short term use. the bad chemicals associated with plastic are generally only an issue if you use it as a long term or permanent solution.
The only problem appears to be that you've got to have an electric power drill to do this. What are they going to use in Gaza where they have no electricity? And only salt water from the sea, or dirty water.
plaint the dirty water container to black colour will more efficiency right?
The first thing I will grab in the zombie apocalypse is super glue..good for everything
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how many hours does each purifier take to fill a 1 liter bottle?
Would a brown glass medicine bottle be better for the source? I also have very light coloured medicine bottles, would that be better for the trap?
Also does this need to be closed as I want a drain so it'll just keep collecting.
A darker bottle will heat the bottle but shade the water. Using a reflector under a clear bottle like a black cloth or metal. Will help. It doesn't have to be sealed but there needs to be something at a higher level to capture the moisture before it escapes and condenses.
U done real good! 🏆👍
why screw around and use 1 gallon glass jugs?? pump steam through it and then seal it off.
on you system put black cloth under the lower one and aluminum foil over the higher one...
Great simple design!
This should have a billion views but people have yet to get their priorities straight.
Great idea dude! Great job with the video too!
If the condenser bottle was buried under ground where it is cooler with a hose from the dirty water bottle down into the condenser bottle it might work faster too? The condenser bottle could be larger to save repeatedly digging it up, if you were distilling salt water sand would be easy to dig anyway.
In survival situations a plastic tube is handy to have anyway for sucking scarce water out of crevices or for siphoning fuel from broken down cars to working vehicles
Thank you very much for sharing.
very welcome 👍
Coil up a little copper wire and pit it the bottle to charge it while it steams. Good for your nervous system.
Maybe use some sort of mirror (maybe an old hard drive disk o some CD collected from trash) to accelerate the evaporation process
It needs to be a contained system or the steam will just exit the hole, but you could put in a "lemonade" tap valve on the clean water side. Obviously a custom-shaped clean-water side would hold a lot more water. I wonder how this would work on a large scale? It's ridiculous to complain about water shortages when 2/3rds of the Earth's surface is water. Would this work for alcohol distillation? They could be stored on boats as floats.
Awesome this is so cool!!!
If solar stills were used on an industrial scale across the coast of California, it could potentially provide a significant source of drinking water, I know one by produce is Brine , but that could also used by the fishing or food industry its just idea ?
Like someone said, a hole for collection, and also I don't think you even need them inclined like that. just on a flat surface should do it. As long as you make sure there's no splashing upon refill xD