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Chapter 1012: Chapter 889: The Answer Revealed (Subscribe please!)
June 11th.
United States.
New York.
The Second World Environmental Protection Technology Products Expo officially commenced.
This was a conference specifically designed to display environmental protection technology products and plans, initiated and organized by International Environmental Organizations, World Wildlife Foundation, Global Environment Facility, and International Greenpeace Organization.
There was no specific hosting time.
The last one took place in 1997.
But the results were not good. In an era when countries vigorously pursued GDP and global manufacturing was experiencing unprecedented prosperity, environmental issues were consistently suppressed, especially in developing countries, whereas developed countries always focused on environmental protection.
Thus,
this Expo was rather awkward at the time and was subsequently shelved for nine long years.
This time, if it hadn’t been for someone lobbying and presenting a revolutionary product convincing the leaders of the four major environmental organizations, they would have waited until next year to hold a "tenth anniversary" event.
This Expo
invited environmental companies, individual volunteers, environmentally-conscious wealthy individuals, and representatives from various polluting industries from around the world; anyone related to environmental endeavors received a joint invitation from the four main organizers.
This prestigious Expo
also attracted participants from around the world.
...
Carol Voss.
Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Also a fervent environmentalist.
Being a chemical engineering educator, he understood the dangers of these chemicals more deeply than an ordinary person.
Upon arriving at the Expo.
Seeing one environmental technology product after another,
Carol Voss’s smile never faded, as he eagerly engaged with personnel at each booth, who, thinking he was interested, introduced their products with great enthusiasm.
"Our air purifier is extremely effective in improving living conditions in harsh environments. As long as there is ventilation, our filter mesh can filter out the majority of harmful gases, protecting human health..."
Upon hearing this introduction,
Carol Voss merely smiled, looked around the booth at other products, all related to air purification, exchanged a few polite words with the exhibitor, and then turned and walked away.
His time
could not be wasted here.
Indoor Air Purifiers.
This product barely touched on environmental protection.
What really interested him were products and plans that could change the natural environment, affecting the living conditions of a place or a nation; he had no interest in filters that only changed the environment within a house.
He lived in a developed country himself.
He felt the air was quite good here.
Did he need this thing?
Isn’t that nonsense? Perhaps in places like India, there was a real need for such devices, as he heard they burned massive amounts of straw there, causing India’s capital to be enveloped in smog for long periods.
Carol Voss also knew that such Expos always included some peculiar items to increase the number of products displayed, as the organizers were not very strict about this issue.
As long as it was somewhat relevant, it could be included.
"Our water quality filtration device can filter out the majority of..."
From the back of the crowd, upon hearing the beginning of the sentence, Carol Voss glanced at the booth, flipped through the manual distributed there, and walked away; another product that had slipped in.
This kind of product
was too insignificant.
If it were used at the source of municipal water supply, in waterworks for large-scale purification of drinking water, it might be somewhat interesting; these household devices were unimpressive and just there to make up numbers.
"Large Molecule Filtration Membrane."
It was the nineteenth product Carol Voss examined. 𝔫𝖔𝖛𝖕𝔲𝔟.𝔠𝖔𝖒
It must be said
that the product’s effect was quite impressive.
It had strong filtering capabilities and was highly effective at filtering large molecular compounds. Unfortunately, there was an issue—if the water quality was poor, the thin film needed to be replaced every five minutes.
Because the gaps would become clogged.
Very inconvenient.
Moreover, it was costly.
This was a laboratory’s product display and inherently had many problems; even Carol Voss could tell that the initial design was not intended for large-scale use in civilian water quality filtering.
This product
should have been used in the laboratory.
It was just deliberately overlooked when applying, and then included here.
Next
Carol Voss finished touring half of the exhibition.
He had many takeaways, but overall, there were several issues: firstly, the cost issue, which could not be effectively reduced, posing a great burden for many companies.
Secondly, the concept was good, but difficult to implement on a large industrial scale.
The last point was about effectiveness—many products performed poorly and were just filling up space.
At this moment,
Carol Voss came to the center of the exhibition area, where a vast crowd had already gathered; it seemed likely to be the largest exhibit at the Expo.
"What are you doing here?" Carol Voss asked curiously to a Caucasian middle-aged man beside him.
The middle-aged man spoke mysteriously, "Inside information, something great will be presented here."
"What great thing?" Carol Voss asked.
The middle-aged man shook his head, visibly troubled, "My friend didn’t provide details, he only mentioned that this place will feature the most important thing at the exhibition, and he sounded very excited about it. Look, many media outlets have arrived."
The middle-aged man pointed at a circle of journalists from various countries gathered in the distance.
Carol Voss noticed that indeed many journalists had arrived, and more were still arriving.
