The cream of tartar worked like a charm. My consistency was a little like thick thick gravy, but I used the back of a spoon to apply it I even went like 30 hours before applying more and it held the rest of the day and yesterday was 91. Here in CA we are having a water shortage so I try and conserve as much as I can, however my landlord came over yesterday morning and said my lawn was dying so my lawn got my shower water yesterday.
There really isn't a water shortage in America. What we have is a monopoly ran by the utility companies who know that they will lose mass amounts of revenue if the "water shortage" that they've been preaching about for 20 years disappears. There are numerous ways to utilize the ocean's waters and purify it for proper use.
Take, for instances, Direct Solar Distillation. Using parabolic mirrors to concentrate the heat from the sun, the water in a heat tank is evaporated and travels through piping to a condensation chamber, where it cools in to pure water. There is at least one large one operating in Africa at the moment with great success, according to a special on the Discovery Channel a few years ago. There are several companies that have miniaturized the system for use on a small scale, such as a farm or ranch.
Also, think about salt mining. The most common method used international is the in-situ recovery mining, also known as solution mining. Fresh or recycled water is pumped down in to the giant salt caverns and left for a defined period until it is a fully saturated sodium chloride brine. It is then extracted from the cavern and processed further. The two most common refinery methods are vacuum pan refining and solar refining. The vacuum pan method utilizes large amounts of steam generated from the salt brine and then pumped in to subsequent chambers in order to be more energy efficient. The end result is a pure water source that can be reused if desired. Alternately, if solar refining took the extra step to enclose the evaporation area, similar to the effects of a solar still, they could easily harvest the evaporating waters. In both these cases, pure water is a byproduct of the systems already in place!
Ironically, the most advanced and unique process is occurring in Mexico where they are using solar refining to increase the saturation of the sea water prior to processing it during the next steps. From my understanding, using the high solar and wind energy they can generate plus the free source of salt, they have virtually no consumable expenses.
Rant Over...
