You'd be amazed.

Heating 10 liters of water from 20 c to 100 c takes just shy of a kilowatt/hour of energy.

You know how many liters of water a pump can MOVE with a kilowatt/hour of energy?

A fuck lot more than 10.

So while, yes, boiling and condensing water may do in one single step what would otherwise take multiple filtering stages, it simply takes so much energy to vaporize water that there's no way you can make the economics of it work. Not without limitless free heat.

You'd be amazed.

Heating 10 liters of water from 20 c to 100 c takes just shy of a kilowatt/hour of energy.

You know how many liters of water a pump can MOVE with a kilowatt of energy?

A fuck lot more than 10. More like 20,000.

So while, yes, boiling and condensing water may do in one single step what would otherwise take multiple filtering stages, it simply takes so much energy to vaporize water that there's no way you can make the economics of it work. Not without limitless free heat.

You'd be amazed.

Heating 10 liter of water from 20 c to 100 c takes just shy of a kilowatt/hour of energy.

You know how many liters of water a pump can MOVE with a kilowatt of energy?

A fuck lot more than 10. More like 20,000.

So while, yes, boiling and condensing water may do in one single step what would otherwise take multiple filtering stages, it simply takes so much energy to vaporize water that there's no way you can make the economics of it work. Not without limitless free heat.

You'd be amazed.

Heating 10 liter of water from 20 c to 100 c takes just shy of a kilowatt/hour of energy.

You know how many liters of water a pump can MOVE with a kilowatt of energy?

A fuck lot more than 10.