Just beautiful, thank you for sharing.In the 1970's and '80s there was an Organic Gardening show on KPFK radio Los Angeles with Dr. Will Kinney of Escondido Ca. He had made quite a science of the making of solar water distillers. I visited him often and used many of his methods and developed more since I have been a specialist in metal work for most of my life. In the 1980s I built a number of solar distillers of stainless steel for distilled water aficionados in Orange County. In the 1990's I did not build more distillers but had a small stainless steel distiller I built myself with an effiecent internal channel system and other innovations, which for only about 6 square feet of glass surface area, produced about a gallon of water per day. In the early 2000's I moved to Central Mexico, where I now live. About 5 years ago I built a little art home, with a copper solar distiller, about ten feet long by 2 1/2 feet wide, which provides ten or 15 liters of distilled water per day, plus hot shower water for a household of 6. You can see that distiller briefly in the middle of this video - A few years ago I moved from that home and left the distiller behind. I then built, and still use, the most economical, but very functional solar distiller I have produced yet. It is built with a body of pine, a natural insulator, on a metal stand. It has an inner liner of super heavy duty black vinyl that they line ponds with. The collection trough where the water collects is stainless steel. In this following photo you see a plastic tube that leads to a small plastic collection bottle. A purist would have a stainless tube and a glass collection bottle, but it is not so easy finding things in rural mexico and I am not that concerned. However hard plastics are better than soft plastics, because the soft contains phalates, which are estrogin mimickers. I built this last one for only about equal to $50 of simple materials, and am very pleased with its functionality. It has a 1/2 sq. meter surface area, and produces about 4 liters per day naturally, and about 10 liters per day if I run an internal heating element during the night.I am retired from this sort of work, but if you PM me I could probably put together a list of design tips if you wish to build your own solar water distillers.
