Where’s the joke?
Needs to be hard water… useless for most
I guess you can harden your water, safer than the microplastics
Just play it loads of Jason Statham movies
Then you get the bonus of putting the microplastics in the air so they can go straight to your lungs instead of your stomach.
The article literally says they get trapped in the calcium that encrusts your boiling apparatus soooo… Try again?
If you’re going to boil it anyway, why not just distill it instead of filtering after you’ve boiled it?
Distilling takes a lot more energy. Once water hits boiling point the energy to turn it to steam is far more than heating it up 1°C when it isn’t boiling.
If only boiling water weren’t stupidly expensive…
I remember having a little carbon block drink bottle at one point, which claimed to filter out the larger of bacteria (maybe it was viruses - they’re a lot larger, aren’t they?) - I wonder if they’re effective (not that we really consider throwing away carbon blocks progress!)
Boiling is 100x cheaper than distilling at least
Oh really? I guess evaporating is worse/more intensive than boiling?
Actually doing the math, each kg of water takes about 4.2 kilojoules to heat by one degree, or 336kJ to heat from 20C to 100C.
Each kg of boiling water (already at 100C) takes about 2250 kJ to turn to steam. Pretty wild difference because it takes a lot of energy to break the hydrogen bonds.
Bacteria are much larger than viruses
