New tools to get distilled water

I don't know if it is already implemented, so do not flame me because I have not that knowledge. I have to stick to 1.6.4 because of some mods not updating (their update will be soon, though), and I have abosutlely no way, except asking someone, to know if what I'm gonna propose is actually implemented.

I would propose other ways to get distilled water. If I'm not mistaken, you get distilled water by producing steam, requiring to boil water thanks to a boiler and a heat producer.
I would propose another way to get distilled water: since distilled water is only evaporated water, I thought Steve would be smart if he decided to collect the water that come from the sky: rain. If that water is present in the form of clouds, it is because it got enough energy to evaporate, and then condense into micro-drops. When the little drops come all together and form large drops, they fall. In that process, they could not find any ion, therefore, they are like distilled water.

Also, I would like to introduce another way of generating heat. It is a way that is more and more used, because it is free (although you have to pay for the device), easy to produce, and easy to place: the thermal solar panel. It is just composed of tubes, with water inside, placed in a dark chamber. As if there is anough light, the solar panel will heat up the water.
For the recipe, I would say it is the same as the solar panel, except that you put ink sacs instead of coal dust, and a tube instead of the generator.
It would make a lot of sense in a desert biome, or a sunny environment.

What do you think?

But rain water contains very few ions.
Though, I understand that it will bring some dirt that is in the air.

Also, you know, when it rains outside, you don't collect much. Or you would need a big surface where the water is collected.

6 hours? Come on...
(OK, ok, we are heating up 1 m^3 here. But it still seems very long).

Would it be possible to have mirrors. I mean, the kind of mirrors that can deflect sun light to concentrate it on a point (like in these solar powerplants: )

Ah! The site just diconnected me and I lost all of what I wrote! AAAHHH !

Well, I was just saying: supposing the mirros are the same size than the solar panels, if I'm correct, we need 100 hU to boil a cubic meter of water.
In a desert, a solar panel boils that water in six hours, as there are 20 ticks/sec, in 6 hours, we have 6*3600*20 ticks, so 432 000 ticks.

So 100/432000= 2,314814814814815*10^(-4) hU/tick.
It is too small (for me), maybe it would be better if the system was based on Joules rather than hU?

Sure, as the light comes from abov anyway.
Though, it would look strange with GLSL Shaders mod.

Maybe. Though, I did not copy the idea. I just had it.