TPT Ignores The Laws of Physics!

The law of conservation of mass and energy seems totes whacked when you filter salt out of water with sponge. When a tank of SLTW is split by SPNG into SALT and WATR, the end product is always greater than the input by around 25%. Does it have something to do with SLTW's statistical probability of going either way, SALT or WATR, when it gets excited? Sometimes it can't make up its mind. It's as if Schroedinger's cat could become twins, one dead and one alive, when the box was opened.

Or is the SPNG gaslighting me? Time to get down on some tight experiments.

As a sort of control, I ran another series of tests with a low-pressure microstill, a very efficient compact unit with a 1 pixel distillation chamber. The results were completely different. Every time, the total product was 1 pixel short of the SLTW input. This was the same no matter what quantity was processed. The proportions of salt to DSTW varied, but always added up to the original quantity, less one particle.

Heat distillation produces yet another kind of discrepancy. Using a fairly simple and well-leakproofed apparatus with the same tank capacity, I did several test runs. End product total was less than half of the original SLTW quantity. SLT always outnumbered DSTW, but not by very much.

So the increase in particles is a feature of SPNG filtering. Is any
of it due to the nature of SLTW? SPNG also spits plain WATR back into the remaining SLTW, where it turns into SLTW and thus increases the amount of material to be processed. Coloring the SLTW red makes the backflow show plainly. The WATR rises to the top, slowly turning into SLTW on the way, so a lot of it is not re-processed until near the end. However, after the SLTW is down to about 2/3 of its original level, the new SLTW particles are being recycled more and more. But by this time, the end product particles already outnumber the original SLTW. Still wondering.

To better control the SPNG, I altered the filter so that there was only a single pixel of SPNG in contact with the SLTW. To speed up the flow, I put a pixel of GEL between the inner sponge and 3 outer particles that emitted the purified water. (GEL has no effect on the outcome discrepancy.) This setup is very slow, but there is no backflow. Whatever happens, it's not because the sponge is messing it up.

The end result is the same. It looks like SPNG and SLTW are conspiring together :)