What Is a Distiller and What Is It Used For?
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Distillation is not only a domestic technology. Whole cities run on it, and our piece on desalination around the world looks at how the same principle turns seawater into drinking water at national scale, and what happens to the waste heat.
If you have got as far as wanting one, we sell refurbished Dol-fyn distillers from $1,495, and that page also does the arithmetic on whether buying a machine beats having the water delivered.
