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i saw some "bleach" generators on amazon which work by electrolysis of slightly salted water. this seems like a pretty decent idea for emergency water treatment, would require a solar panel and some salt. i wonder if there are studies on the efficiency.

i wouldn't want to use electrodes of what likely is shady chinese pcb for that of course :D

@bonifartius Lol, and then put those cheaper metals put in salty water for electrolysis :)

(might not cheaper metal just there is a lot of influx / export stuff which isn't the over-quality type metal we're used to for brackets, hooks, tools and stuff like that)

@freeschool yeah, warrants electrodes which aren't poisonous when dissolved ;)

@bonifartius Good question, salt storage isn't much of an issue as you can have tons of it.
Efficiency of the setup is a good question.

@mangeurdenuage you just need adequate concentration of chlorine which can't be that high - i read about using household bleach (NaOCl) and you apparently only need a few drops of it for one liter. the water has to be clear of solids of course, but that is the case for most methods which aren't boiling.

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