{"id":4820,"date":"2017-10-02T14:43:12","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T21:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fightfast.com\/blog\/?p=4820"},"modified":"2017-10-02T14:43:12","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T21:43:12","slug":"bushcraft-bs-condensation-saltwater-filter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/02\/bushcraft-bs-condensation-saltwater-filter\/","title":{"rendered":"Bushcraft or BS:  Condensation Saltwater Filter"},"content":{"rendered":"What do you do when you're on the beach, dehydrated, not a drop of fresh water in sight?\u00a0 According to this survival trick, look for some garbage!\u00a0 Sneak a peak at the video below to see what I mean:<!--more-->\n<div class=\"flex-video\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kv_QaLz4Hg0?rel=0&amp;controls=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\nI had high hopes for this \"hack\" but it turns out to be total bull. I should have known better.\n\nFirst, let's start with the positives. This technically works. We did manage to produce drinkable salt free water from salt water. It's a pretty clever set up too. The problem is scale and time.\n\nProblem Number 1, Scale: If you had the time, energy and resources to make 100 of these you could have a real solution. That's unlikely in a survival situation.\n\nProblem Number 2, Time: Because it seemed to take a temperature swing to get the condensation to happen you can only produce good quantities of water 1 time per day. That's a serious drawback.\n\nFinal thoughts: There may be something we missed with the setup on this trick. As we tried later on, wrapping the base with a towel to get a good seal seemed to keep the hot moist air inside the container. That was not part of the description we read from a published survival book. We were just desperate to get this to work, so we improvised.\n\nWith some slight changes this might work (I'm not that clever, if you know what I did wrong please comment below).\n\nA clear day with a cool breeze could really help condense the water. Coastal climates are often breezy so that is a plausible solution. Sealing the base from the outset could help too.\n\nOverall I would keep this trick up my sleeve but use as an absolute last resort. I would not bet my life on it.\n\nThanks for watching!\n<div class=\"small-10 medium-4 large-4 columns\">\n<h4><strong>Click the button below to subscribe to our new channel:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<script src=\"https:\/\/apis.google.com\/js\/platform.js\"><\/script>\n<div class=\"g-ytsubscribe\" data-channelid=\"UCzRcRKV6mRwLfkg9WmB84Eg\" data-layout=\"full\" data-count=\"default\"><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you do when you&#8217;re on the beach, dehydrated, not a drop of fresh water in sight?\u00a0 According to this survival trick, look for some garbage!\u00a0 Sneak a peak at the video below to see what I mean:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,15],"tags":[66,236,238,239],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}