I would use a big stock pot. because I already have it and I won't have to buy yogurt. or maybe a kitty litter bucket. or some tea cups.

I use yogurt containers because they're free. If you buy the yogurt first. Mixed berry holds water the best I think. 

it's true! but rose said she didn't have anything to put the water in to save it.
rose needs a bucket! or a rain barrel. or something.

Plus, it cools down eventually, too! All by itself!

how hot? plants like warm water. it rains warm water in the tropics.

The water our AC makes is hot!  Can't water the plants with it... and I really don't have anything hanging around the house to dump that water into.  except the sink.  That works fine.

The water our AC makes is hot!  Can't water the plants with it... and I really don't have anything hanging around the house to dump that water into.  except the sink.  That works fine.

The water our AC makes is hot!  Can't water the plants with it...

I keep the outlet tube from my central AC stuck in a watering can. I use the water to water shrubs and/or refill birdbaths.

My new free-standing air conditioner makes a few quarts of water a day.  Distilled water perhaps?  Is it useful for anything particular?

Make sure the goldfish don't get into the iron when you tip the bowl. They're slippery little buggers and mess up your shirts.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

Yeah, another good choice. Or use it in the steam iron.

So if she needs to add water to the goldfish bowl, that would be a good source?

 buzz wrote:

Yeah, the reporter kinda garbled that.

It draws ambient (unheated) air in thru a big rotating drum that's built kind of like an air filter. The drum is made of paper saturated in a silicate desiccant (like the kind you find in paper packets in new camera boxes) and it absorbs water out of even very dry air. This drum rotates to another duct where dry air that has been heated blows thru it, which removes the absorbed water. This now-moist air is then cooled down to near ambient to condense the water, which is collected and filtered for storage. The now-dry drum rotates on to collect more water.

There are some additional stages and gear involved but that's the gist of it.

 rosedraws wrote:
It's pretty clean. Might taste a little funny (especially at first, or the first few times you run it every summer because of dust accumulation and such) but it should be pretty harmless.

I'd recommend watering houseplants with it, especially any that are sensitive to the chlorine in tapwater. If you're on a well then it won't be a big improvement, but it should be the softest water you ever saw.

My new free-standing air conditioner makes a few quarts of water a day.  Distilled water perhaps?  Is it useful for anything particular?

the explaination of how it worked didnt make sense to me. it seems like it heats the air, adds moisture to it, then cools it down and removes the moisture. could you explain it a little better?