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I am far from an expert here, but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_osmosis#High_pressure_p... and http://urila.tripod.com/desalination.htm/ both claim one needs Over 20 bar of pressure for reverse osmosis. I doubt anyone can suck that hard (apologies for the pun)


The whole point of the article is that this membrane has about 1000x higher flow rate than RO filters.


I still am not an expert, but the way I understand this is that, at say 30 bar, this membrane would produce 1000 times the amount of desalinated water as a conventional system, not that it would produce 100 times more at 3 bar or 10 times more at 0.3 bar than conventional ones at 30 bar.




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