Off The Grid Talk

Mystik Spiral wrote:

	flashlightfreak9 wrote:
	Just put a barrel under the downspout.

If you're on the ground floor. Wink

You'd just have to haul it to the top floor. Laughing

Good exercise, if nothing else. Cool

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I try the bucket thing first. what about filtration. Question

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	linsleyk wrote:
	I try the bucket thing first. what about filtration.

If you want to drink it you might want to buy a water filter, if it's not drinking water you could pour it through some screens. Cool

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Yea you may want to put a screen over the top to catch leaves and things falling in the water to keep it cleaner. Cool

Yeah, otherwise you'll be drinking nastiness from off the roof! Shocked

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I read that recently they discovered that rain water holds chemicals that we never dreamt were there until now. I guess it has lots of opportunity to pick up stuff in the atmosphere. You shouldn't drink rain water unless necessary.

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I heard that too Bushrat....I use mine for the plants around My house. I reckon if you were gonna drink it boil it first might help make it safe to drink? Question

	LaraCroft wrote:
	I heard that too Bushrat....I use mine for the plants around My house. I reckon if you were gonna drink it boil it first might help make it safe to drink?

Boiling will kill bacteria, but not chemicals. Some stuff can even travel with water when it's distilled, which used to be a sure fire way to purify water.
We live in dangerous times. Crying or Very sad

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BushRat wrote:

	LaraCroft wrote:
	I heard that too Bushrat....I use mine for the plants around My house. I reckon if you were gonna drink it boil it first might help make it safe to drink?

Boiling will kill bacteria, but not chemicals. Some stuff can even travel with water when it's distilled, which used to be a sure fire way to purify water.
We live in dangerous times. Crying or Very sad

A water filter will take out chemicals. Sure there's dangerous things, but there always was, and always will be dangerous things. I'm sure you're ingested hundreds of different chemicals without knowing. As long as you stay in shape, and eat good foods you'll get old, but be able to move around fine. Cool

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You're right Mystik . Cool

You'll be surprised what you've ingested without knowing it...lol Laughing

Has anyone here actually considered going off the grid? Its a dream of mine, that when I get my own home I'll be off the grid.

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I have considered it and hope to be able too one day. Just no time recent it looks like. Cool

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when I was young my family wanted too, like way off the grid. but it never happened. but I would love to seriously Very Happy

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