There are those companies that develop such technologies as thin film seperators as an obseional neccesity, there are those that jump on band wagons far too late to be able to claim any innovatve or creative credentials.
The only thing this embarrasment of a company has been doing for tye last twenty years is hiring the most fearsome lawers to destroy the lives of Prince Willliam Sound fine folk.
I dont know how this company manages to find air on this site.
Arn.

We oldies can remember Dow Corning coming to attention as the innovative manufacturers of napalm in the 60's Vietnam era.
Exxon chose for the last 20 years to evade their responsibilities to the fisherfolk of Prince Wiliam Sound - let alone the natural environment that have even less rights (if that is possible).
To that degree the investment in "thin film technology" (where have I heard that before?)
is based on theft.

Maybe ExMo will patent something beneficial so they can shelve it beside Chevron's EV NiMH batteries.

Or maybe they will market it, like the under one(1) dollar's worth of material's we pay over thirty(30) dollars for in HP ink jet printers. It's a higher rip-off, I meant cost, than the original printer, software, and ink.

There's still an estimated 26,000 gallons of oil in Prince Wm sound.
I used to drive past the Valdez at the san diego shipyard where it was being repaird. Exxon had renamed it the Mediterranean, and it's been renamed four more times. strikes me as deceitful.
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However, i'm glad to see companies jumping on the bandwagon. The more the merrier.