[ExI] Bosch exits Solar business in Germany

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>... On Behalf Of Adrian Tymes

>...Have a couple reports, though these seem to grade in terms of liters per
(other things and) pressure.  This suggests they would work regardless of
pressure, just work better at higher pressures...

Thanks, I will look it over.  While I do that, I will review how to do
entropy calculations on sodium chloride going into solution in water.
Clearly if a passive membrane could separate salt from water without a huge
pressure differential, you would violate the law of increasing entropy.
Imagine a barrel of water bisected by a horizontal magic graphene membrane.
Pour seawater in the top half, come back some time later, find fresh water
at the bottom half of the barrel and saltier seawater in the top half.   You
would agree the half and half barrel is lower entropy than you started with,
ja?

>...http://phys.org/news/2012-06-nanoporous-graphene-outperform-commercial-d
esalination.html
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adfm.201202601/abstract

>>... The takeaway is that we need to beware of the claims being made for 
> graphene.  It is really cool stuff, but it can't do magic.

>...Isn't this the case for any new material? :) _______________________

Ja, still true for any new material.  The second law of thermodynamics is
not just a suggestion...  {8^]

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