Alan I thought you might appreciate this article, which could give some guidance as to a valuation for Ionic, at least in part.
I also thought the Pressure -retarded Osmosis product is of more than some fleeting interest IMHO.
Interview: IDE Technologies CEO Avshalom Felber
https://www.desalination.biz/news/3/Interview-IDE-Technologies-CEO-Avshalom-Felber/8531/
An ultrafast water transport forward osmosis membrane: porous graphene
Jing-Gang Gai,
*a Xiao-Lei Gong,
a Wei-Wei Wang,
a Xin Zhanga and
Wu-Li Kanga
Author affiliations
Abstract
As an emerging technology, forward osmosis (FO) has shown great promise in energy production from the mixing of fresh water and seawater in estuaries. However, the power density levels of the present commercial FO membranes hinder their practical applications in power generation due to the requirement for extremely large areas of membrane. Here, we use functionalized porous-single-layer graphene as a FO membrane and study the transport performances of the membrane using molecular dynamics simulation. For the FO system using fluorinated porous graphene (pore-diameter 11.7 Å, porosity 10%), with an excellent performance for salt rejection, the water flux is 28.1 L cm
−2 h which is about 1.8 × 10
4 times higher than that of a typical cellulose triacetate membrane. Such high water flux will certainly bring about a very high power density in pressure retarded osmosis power generation. This work may generate potential opportunities for functionalized graphene in FO power generation, seawater desalination and so forth.
Alan the JV with clq would make that entity a natural competitor to ide.
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