Moving part of a post to a dedicated thread.
I’m currently switching to using a steripen for water purification over aquamira. I’m still concerned about viruses (I see too much unburied toilet paper near aqua sources), so something like a befree is out.
I’m still experimenting on finding perfect containers….but what I’m really looking for is a way to treat water faster.
Now, looking at the smart water bottle….lets assume that steripen “approves” this bottle since its a 1 L normal water bottle. You can tell how tall the smart water bottle is…its 11.5″ tall, though the actual water container part is about 10″.
Even if you stir the water….I’m assuming that the water at the “top” of the bottle will only ever get partially closer to the bottom where UV light is. So that distance between UV light and water is sufficient to get the water sterilized. I.e…..if the height of the smart water bottle is Kosher, then it would stand to reason that you could also go wider than the smart water bottle and still get sterilized water.Has someone found 1.5-2L water bottles that might be a bit shorter than smart water bottles but quite a bit wider? My initial thought was using a 2L seeker bottle…
Its 9.9″ by 5.3″…so pretty much exactly as tall as the smart water bottle, just wider. It seems that its just about the same size as a Gatorade bottle opening, so I could fit the classic 3 in without needing to invert, but I can still stir the steripen around. If its filled with water, I should be able to set it on the ground and still hold the pen and bag with one hand to sterilize. And…if this was still effective, it would cut my treatment time in half……and battery use in half….so I would probably start buying lithiums instead of using niMH and would reduce my pack weight….
