Cheap DDW production

Dear drinkwater producers,

I’d like to share some info that can help with the production of (drink)water that is more pure on a sub-molecular level, also known as deuterium depleted water (DDW). Removing deuterium from water is difficult and expensive with current methods. A trick to make DDW cheaper is to start with a substance that is already deuterium depleted and then make water from it. There are many substances that are naturally deuterium depleted. Some prominent ones are natural gas, natural/fossil hydrogen, other fossil fuels and even some organic (waste) materials are deuterium depleted. This graph shows an estimate for the many deuterium depleted resources:

Many homes and buildings use natural gas or propane for heating. In most systems the water in the exhaust gets partly condensed for extra efficiency and discarded in the drain. This water was mostly formed from oxygen in the air and deuterium depleted hydrogen from the fuel.
It is important to note that the condensate is in most cases toxic with aluminium from the heat exchanger and should never be consumed before distillation. Normal water filters are definitely not powerful enough for removing enough aluminium, only some high quality RO filters could potentially be powerful enough. Removing aluminium and similar contaminants is a lot easier and cheaper than removing deuterium, this is what makes this process useful.
I make DDW from the condensed burned natural gas that is a waste product form my home heating system. I’ll add a picture of my “home DDW factory”, it’s just a collection tank and a distiller:

This should make (moderately ~20%) DDW a lot cheaper and more locally producible. Maybe 10x cheaper or even 100x in some cases if for example a natural gas power plant is next doors to a beverage factory or efficient greenhouse. Hopefully it will become cheap enough for everyone who wants to drink DDW and even cheap enough for pets, houseplants, bottled beverages, humidifiers, farm animals and water efficient greenhouses for DD food. Highly deuterium depleted water will obviously still require further depletion with current methods/factories, maybe some rare natural hydrogen wells could be found with much higher depletion than ~20% for a head-start.

I also shared this info during a couple presentations, this is a link to the slides: https://archive.org/details/licht-water-presentatie-met-extra-uitleg-op-slides/page/5/mode/1up they have little written explanations, in Dutch, but should be understandable for those already familiar with DDW.

I hope this can help you all with making DDW more available and affordable to many people, that would be great! Good luck!

Kind regards,
Simon Meijs

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