Recycled water anyone?

[CapSmashy]

Are you guys referring to "swamp coolers"????

Yes, they are referring to swamp coolers. They work pretty good at BM (very hot and dry). We used one in 2005 & 2006 using our cooler melt water and it cooled an insulated gp medium tent nicely.

Yep. Ours made the tent (10x14 canvas) feel almost chilly last year after it had been running for several hours. Manbabe over at Sex Filth has the filter set up I was talking about and running a big window unit sized swamp cooler in his RV. He processed and evaporated lot of grey water last year and ran most of his set up on batteries with solar chargers.

[illy dilly]

So I'm calculating similar to Captain, my best friend and I are bringing 100 gallons or so if we can, for cooking, drinking, bathing, and all of the above.

I've only been to Burning Man once, so feel free to shut me up if I'm wrong, but I think 100 gallons is a little over kill for two people.
Unless you plan on getting there before Monday and leaving after Sunday. 100 gallons is 800 pounds.

At army surplus and some camping stores you can get big 7-7.5 gallon containers. Normally in blue or teal so to distinguish between gas/pre-mix (red/yellow) there is a tall skinny type or a more cubic type. Get which ever size would best fit your cargo style. They have real nice turn style faucets. We figure one of those per person. Plus one extra per 3-4 people, so you have roughly 10 gallons per person.
WOW, I really got off topic! My bad!

[capjbadger]

David,

This is something I've played around with for a few years now. Not for drinking per se, but to clean the water so it can be sprinkled on the road or used in the swamp cooler I built. It really comes down to having a sealed system. One the playa gets in, you're in trouble.

I think I may of hit upon the right way to do it. I'll post some updates once I get it all together and test it a bit. However your idea of converting people's grey water in 30 minutes won't fly with this system.

Hey Capt GD! Goood to see you.

Badger

[Lord Of Ruin]

Ok, here 's the very exhaustive threads on evaps:

http://eplaya.burningman.org/viewtopic. ... light=evap

Somewhere in that thread it links or talks about the camp that was filled with scientists/university folks that tried to do the reclamation thing on a large scale one year. As in take ANY playa waste water and make it drinkable.

It was an exhaustive, multi-stage process that ultimately was defeated in practical use by the playa dust. Again, find that link and you'll see a nifty breakdown of the stages they put it through, and more importantly why.

I did about 4 months research prior to MY first year with the idea that I was going to build a self contained, fully working evap machine for my camp mates as a gift for taking me.

Even that I abandoned in favor of other projects months before.

There is a reason you see veteran burners packing and packing OUT so much stuff, including waste water.

I respect your enthusiasm, but I think you may be mistaking BM as some sort of green/hippy event where everyone is most concerned with issues like sustainability, etc. Not true at all. Many WILL like those ideas...but your fully working system is perfectly likely to elicit responses like "It recycles water? Cool! Where is Daft Punk playing this year...yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...."

Again, if you are Mr. Water Wizard, go for it. But I suspect that there's a hell of a lot of other shit you'd much rather be tinkering with out there being a first timer.

Just a thought.

LoR