So this is a basic water treatment device. The Nanotech part is the Light Blue box off center to the left. In this box are membranes in an alternating fashion. Those membranes are coated with nano-particles that various institutions and Universities wish to test. Water of different salinities and salt contents flow through the device, they empty out into the different vessels and the membranes above are collecting the scaling, fouling or impurities. This is accomplished using Electro Dialysis Methasis. Typically, this procedure is done using Reverse Osmosis but EDM has the potential to recover above 95% as compared to 80% from RO’s.

My big surprise this summer is all the physical labor involved with this device…

This program is way more than I was expecting…

I start at 8 am and most days work until 5pm, although I have already done 630 pm twice. My wife looks at me sometimes and asks,” are you sure you want to be doing this”?

“I do, like when I married you, I do”.  She says, “you will barely have 13 days before school starts again. Why are you banging your head against the wall like this”?

Truthfully, I want to say you are right, I should stop and hang out with my son and build Lego toy sets with him or make glitter bombs with my daughter but something inside me compels my actions. It is inexplicable, something has gripped me, nanotech has planted a seed in me and the soil is rich…I have a strangely good feeling about this experience, an intuition for something more than has been delivered  and promised.

Next week my mentor is paying for me to attend the local AAWA meeting for the Southwest. What is on the agenda? The conference is nothing less than the next 50 years of water needs and water rights acquisitions for the Southwest and how the water will be provided or supplied.

” Why do I bang my head against the wall babe?, because it will feel so good when I stop”… thanks for indulging me guys!!!