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June 11th.
The United States.
New York.
The Second World Environntal Protection Technology Products Expo officially opened.
This was a conference dedicated to displaying environntal protection technology products and plans, jointly initiated by international environntal organizations such as the World Wildlife Foundation, Global Environnt Facility, and the International Greenpeace Organization.
There was no specific hosting ti.
The last one was nine years ago.
However, its impact was minimal. As countries vigorously pursued GDP and global manufacturing industry thrived, environntal issues were consistently sidelined, especially in developing countries, while developed countries paid close attention to environntal protection.
Thus.
The Expo was sowhat awkward at that ti and ended up being neglected for nine long years.
This ti, if it hadn’t been for soone lobbying and offering a milestone product which convinced the upper managent of the four major environntal organizations, they might have waited until next year to celebrate a ’ten-year anniversary’ before hosting it again.
This Expo.
Invited environntal companies, individual volunteers, environntally conscious wealthy people, and representatives from various polluting industries from all over the world—anyone related to environntal protection work received a joint invitation from the four major hosting parties.
Such a grand Expo.
Also attracted participants from all over the world.
...
Carol Voss.
Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He was also a fervent environntalist.
Being a teacher in chemical engineering, he understood the dangers of these things much more deeply than ordinary people.
When he arrived at the Expo.
and saw various environntal technology products,
Carol Voss’s smile never faded. At each exhibit, he eagerly engaged with the personnel there, who thought he was interested and introduced their products with great enthusiasm.
"Our air purifier is very effective in improving living conditions under harsh environnts. As long as there is ventilation, our filter sh can filter out most of the harmful gases, protecting one’s health..."
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Upon hearing this introduction.
Carol Voss simply offered a smile, then took a look around the rest of the exhibit, which were all air purification products, politely exchanged a few words with them, and then turned to leave.
He couldn’t afford to waste his ti here.
Indoor air purifiers.
This thing barely grazes the surface of environntal protection.
What he was really interested in were products and plans that could change the natural environnt, change the living conditions of people in a region, in a nation. Filters that simply alter the environnt within a house were not of interest to him.
He lived in a developed country.
He felt the air was quite good here.
Do you really need this stuff?
This is just nonsense. Maybe India needs this, as he heard that they burn large amounts of straw every year, causing smog to envelop the capital for long periods.
Carol Voss also knew that such Expos often included so peculiar inclusions, trying to beef up the number of products on display without being too strict with the requirents.
As long as it was sowhat related, it could be featured.
"Our water quality filtering device can remove most of the contaminants in drinking water..."
Standing at the back of the crowd, after hearing the first half of the sentence, Carol Voss took another look at the exhibit and flipped through the handbook they distributed before walking away. It was another attendee just padding the numbers.
Such a device.
Was too trivial.
If it was used at the source, naly the Waterworks for large-scale drinking water purification, it might be promising. But for dostic use, these gadgets were uninteresting and simply there to make up the numbers.
"Large Molecule Filtration mbrane."
It was the nineteenth product Carol Voss looked at.
There’s no denying.
The effect was impressive.
The filtering capability was strong, with a remarkable effect on filtering large molecule compounds. Too bad it ca with an issue—if the water quality was poor, the thin film would need to be replaced every five minutes.
Because the pores would get clogged.
Very botherso.
And expensive.
It was a laboratory product display with many inherent problems, and Carol Voss could tell that the device’s initial design wasn’t for mass utilization in civil water quality filtration.
This thing.
Was ant for laboratories.
But it was deliberately overlooked when being declared, just to be included.
Next.
Carol Voss had toured half of the exhibit.
He learned quite a bit, but overall, there were several issues: first, the costs, which were not effectively reduced, imposing a huge burden on many companies.
Second, the concepts were good, but challenging to scale up for industrialization.
The last point was about effectiveness; the impact of many products was poor, they were just filling space.
At that mont.
Carol Voss reached the center of the Expo and noticed it was crowded, taking up a considerable amount of space. It was probably the largest exhibition area at the Expo.
"What are you all doing here?" Carol Voss asked curiously to a Caucasian middle-aged man nearby.
The middle-aged man said mysteriously, "Inside scoop, they’re going to showcase sothing great here."
"What great thing?" asked Carol Voss.
The middle-aged man shook his head, expressing his frustration, "My friend didn’t say much; he just ntioned that sothing very important to this Expo will be on display here, and he seed quite excited about it. See, many dia outlets have already arrived."
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