Category Archives: Filtration

Fluid Notes: PFAS and the Water Supply

Posted on February 5, 2020 by flybrand1976

RO can create clean drinking water, but it concentrates PFAS. Carbon beds can capture PFAS, but it may be released later. Continue reading →

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Carnegie 05.2.2: How to Win Friends and Influence People: Pt 2, Chapter 5 – Smile – “A Simple Way to Make a Good First Impression”

Posted on July 4, 2019 by flybrand1976

5.2 Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People – Part 2, Chapter 2 – Smile – “A Simple Way to Make a Good First Impression” Watch Instead: (Carnegie Video Shorts – Smile) In these early chapters, Carnegie is just … Continue reading →

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5,000,000 Youtube Views for ‘Filtration’ – Tough Concepts the #1 Video Gets Right

Posted on June 24, 2019 by flybrand1976

5 million views is a lot for an industrial product – here are the concepts the top Youtube hit for ‘filtration’ got right. Continue reading →

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Global Fluids and Volumes

Posted on June 18, 2019 by flybrand1976

How much water is on Earth? How much beer? How much human blood? Continue reading →

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“What does it take to be (a good) CEO?” Answer: People

Posted on January 1, 2018 by flybrand1976

All of the successes were from bringing in good people, helping them frame problems and getting them the tools they needed to be successful. The failures? They were mine – mostly due to not properly resourcing a problem with the … Continue reading →

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Fraud in Industrial Technologies

Posted on May 4, 2014 by flybrand1976

GigaOm’s article on green energy snake oil highlights the challenges faced by investors in any industrial technology.  We’re not investors, but over the past six years of applying our process and equipment in this industrial technology space, we have certainly seen many unusual … Continue reading →

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Seven Red Lines (1): Defend Your Technical Resources

Posted on May 3, 2014 by flybrand1976

Working with the world leaders in filtration and technical fabrics we get all kinds of inquiries that sound surprisingly similar to the meeting that Anderson the Expert sits through.  Requests aren’t fully thought through, the vocabulary of the technical needs … Continue reading →

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NanoH2O Acquisition: The Product

Posted on April 14, 2014 by flybrand1976

On Friday, March 14, Korean industrial concern LG Chem announced they were purchasing NanoH2O, an RO membrane maker that took its first external funding at the peak of the CleanTech bubble in 2005 for $200 MM.  Industrial technology has proven … Continue reading →

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