Puzzle of plastic

[dennis]

Cheap filter.

[dennis]

TV is far less polluting than driving tons of water about in lorries when better stuff comes out of the tap.

[spuorgelgoog]

Drink beer instead.

Owain

[Tim Watts]

Sodastream in the 80s were able to resell genuine concentrates from one of the cola companies and a good range of Schwepps.

Bearing in mind the concentrates often exist anyway for a) pub dispensers; b) transporting from the factory to the bottling plant (that may not be owned by the company).

Not licensing them is just bloody minded and I assume that's the reason because why would you sell "generic" cola for Sodastream if you could (and did) sell the genuine article.

It was one of those things that made perfect sense.

[The Natural Philosopher]

As usual you have simp0ly not done the sums.

The total land area of Great Britain is 209,331 km^2

The average outout of a field of best practice biomass growth in terms of unprocessed biomass is 0.2W/sq m opr 0.2MW/sq km

So if the *whole of great britain* were laid down to biofuel - assuming it could be grown in the scottish highlands etc - would be around 40GW.

Convert that into gas and you wouldnt get anywhere near that.

The TOTAL energy consumption of the UK averages out at 256GW give or take.

THERE IS NOT ENOUGH SUNLIGHT FALLING ON THE ENTIRE UK TO GROW ENOUGH BIOMASS TO REPLACE NMATUYRAL GAS AND FOSSIL FUELS BY A FACTOR of 6:1

BIOMASS is ten times less efficent than windmills, which are 50 times less efficient than solar panels, in terms of ouput per unit land area, and the only virtue is that they represent stored energy.

Why dont you go away and do some basic research before spouting your mindless fact free fourth hand 'opinions'

[soup]

Obviously not drank some of the 'liquids' that pass themselves of as drinking water down south.

[soup]

Nope, pure water ( H2O ) is pretty tasteless it's the ions and Minerals and... that make it 'taste' of anything

[soup]

Didn't 'they' use to do that in Victorian times?

[Fredxx]

Pretty tasteless I will accept, it certainly won't blow your head off.

I wonder if you have ever drunk 'ultrapure' water?

[soup]

Not to my knowledge, is 'ultrapure' some sort of tradename? Have sipped some distilled water (about as pure [H2O only] as it gets).

[Fredxx]

As the article suggests it a term used by the semiconductor industry but is also used in medical areas such as dialysis.

Unfortunately Wodney is getting confused with many drinking water filter companies who market their water as being "ultra pure" (usually two words), which of course it isn't.

[Max Demian]

Yes, I used to have a SodaStream until it broke. Very useful, but probably a lot more expensive than shop brand soda nowadays. (ASDA lemonade 35p for 2l; ASDA cola, 6x330ml cans, £1.50.) The SodaStream does avoid the need to cart lots of water home, though.

[Max Demian]

Yeah kids went straight from mother's milk to beer.

[Bob Eager]

You're being ripped off. Aldi do diet lemonade for 17p/2l !

[FMurtz]

If you are of a DIY mind you can fill the cylinder by unscrewing the valve and fill with dry ice to the same weight as CO2 contents and screw the valve back in, It will then sublimate to liquid gas

[Chris J Dixon]

Friend of mine has a houseful of tqt. He once got hold of an old Sodastream, connected it up to a large CO2 cylinder he also happened to have, and proceeded to gas up 2 litre bottles of tap water, even cheaper than supermarket value fizzy water.

I think he wanted to try oxygen, but the insolubility was a bit of a problem ;-)

Chris

[The Natural Philosopher]

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[2987fr]

Clearly a typo for tat.

[tabbypurr]

That'll be why no-one has sodastream then. Ss was never more than a minority product.

NT

[Chris J Dixon]

No, the standard uk.rec.sheds term for Top Quality Tat.

Chris