>Funny how I could be using, practically every day, a product produced by a >process that someone claims does not exist! > >Reverse osmosis is reverse osmosis - instead of solutions passively reaching >a concentration of solute equilibrium across a semipermeable membrane, RO >uses pressure to force water across a semipermeable membrane, the membrane >preventing the passage of the solutes. In effect a molecular filter. > >You end up with "saltier water than before on one side" and "purer water >than before" on the other. > >Andrew, maybe one day you have to make fresh water on a sailboat or life >raft with a manually powered RO unit (arm powered piston pushing salt water >against membrane). That's not osmosis. Osmosis is an entirely PASSIVE process. If pressure is necessary, it's something else. I don't care what marketers call it; these people make up whatever they like, no matter how incorrect. |
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