to pee or not to pee?

[bennyjenkins]

is there any reason not to pee in the dirt of a solar still? Providing that you pee in it before you put in the bottle, vegetation, tube ect, it will distill the urine correct?

 

[skammer]

Yes, it will piss away.

 

[David E]

Survivorman did this very thing. He said it tasted just fine.

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[SkunkWerX]

Since it is a form of distillation, you want any water based liquid, so the H2o will evaporate into the drinkable supply. We had read, and even now saw on Survivorman, you don't get a lot of production from a 2 foot x 2 foot solar still. an oz. or two of water.

If you had a much larger peice of plastic, and great supply of water laden vegetation, then maybe you could sustain yourself. Most likely if that is all you have you will just prolong the inevtiable dehydration.

 

[nemoaz]

Bear said just to drink the urine straight. Urea, ketones, sodium, potassium, in concentrated form. Great for survival.

It's fine to urinate and also put foliage inside to the sill to try to get water. It won't, however, produce much water in the most arid areas. I doubt it will replace the sweat you lose while digging the thing.

 

[ironraven]

Aim well, aim often. You'll be fine urinating around a solar sill so long as you aren't wizzing something like benzene.

In that case, your probably have bigger issues than dehydration.

 

[2manyknives]

Remember to wash your hands after.