Chapter 223: Absolute Attention!
The idea of the paper is not advanced and simple, using microorganisms to decompose human waste.
This theory was proposed more than 20 years ago, but it is a beautiful idea after all.
It is true that some bacteria can decompose organic matter, but they are also powerless against the polymer human plastic waste, and the decomposition speed is quite slow.
"Isn't that a joke? Eco-friendly bacteria? Is there still this bacterium in this world? Carson, the editor-in-chief of biotechnology in the journal Nature, looked at the paper and was first skeptical.
According to the paper, if the environmental bacteria are true, then the theory is valid, but where do the environmental bacteria come from? There are no bacteria on Earth that are so efficient. Carson laughed twice,
Carson's assistant also said: "Orientals are bragging, isn't the last time they used fingerstick blood to test for cancer also a fake paper?" Should this article be returned? ”
"Don't worry." Carson said. Because Bluestar doesn't make such jokes, a company that can beat Samsung, Intel, Microsoft and Apple is not like a braggart company.
Same as last time, in addition to Chen Nuo, the signature of this paper is also the experimental team of Bluestar Company, so such a formal paper should not be a joke.
"And the attachments." Carson said.
The paper is only the main body, and there are some columns of experimental processes and data that support the paper at the back of the paper, and there are even audio-visual materials.
Sure enough, there was a video in the email.
Carson downloads it and plays it.
In the video, workers throw tons of solid biological waste into Treatment No. 1, and while it's not very clear, Carson can roughly guess what the solid waste is — plastic bags, dust, various plastic bottles, rotting food, and so on.
"What are they doing? Is there an eco-friendly fungus in this pool? The assistant said.
Carson ignored the assistant and instead watched the video intently.
Immediately after the screen begins to fast-forward, Carson sees a lot of solid waste floating in the pool slowly dissolved, and finally disappears from the pool completely.
The assistant exclaimed, "Oh my God, what is this!" Did they put sulfuric acid in the pool? ”
Carson watched the time monitored in the lower right corner of the video, and the reality was that it took only two days from the dumping of the garbage to the final dissolution.
"No, it's not sulfuric acid, it's environmental bacteria."
"Oh my God, it's unbelievable!"
Even more unbelievable to Carson, an employee of the Blue Star Company walked to the pool, filled a bottle with a little water from the pool, and then added a small white box and drank it.
"This ...... This...... Is that okay? "The assistant's perception has been completely turned upside down.
Of course, this is possible, after the waste is treated by environmental protection bacteria, it has reached the standard of natural water in the water source, and it is okay to breed fish, but it is not possible to drink it, because in addition to environmental protection bacteria, there are bacteria that are harmful to the human body, such as E. coli.
The environmental bacteria in the water will be digested by stomach acid and will not have side effects on humans.
But bacteria such as E. coli can still damage human health, so the chemical reagents in the small white box can completely kill the bacteria.
With the progress of human civilization, the destruction of the whole nature by human garbage is particularly serious, and there are such problems in developed countries and developing countries. Even the uninhabited islands in the depths of the Pacific Ocean are still surrounded by human pollution. In the ocean, sea turtles, whales, and other creatures often die by mistakenly using garbage.
Today, in the twentieth century, human waste, especially plastic waste, has become a top threat to natural ecology and human health.
After five years of investigation, some scholars have found that the seafood that humans eat now also has very small plastic particles. This garbage, which takes hundreds or even thousands of years to dispose of by nature, ends up in the stomach of human beings.
Carson knows that the UK is also facing difficulties in disposing of waste.
In the past few decades, Britain's garbage has been exported to China, and the clean and tidy Britain seems to be free of garbage and pollutants at the expense of other countries.
Two years ago, China banned the import of garbage around the world, and the UK was piling up with garbage, with no other way but to burn and bury it. This method of garbage disposal also aroused the dissatisfaction of the British, who often protested and demanded that China re-import the garbage, as if it was an honor given to him by the British to be able to import garbage.
Now, if the eco-friendly bacteria are real, then the human garbage problem will be solved. The UK only needs to introduce environmentally friendly bacteria and establish a garbage treatment plant in its own country, so that it can quickly dispose of garbage without pollution.
Carson increasingly felt that the importance of this paper could even be classified as a paper that changed the human environment in the twenty-first century.
"We need to go to China." Carson, a microbiology graduate from Imperial College London, will not let go of environmental bacteria, "If Bluestar's experiment is true, we hope to cooperate with him, the UK is an island country, there is not so much land and space to deal with a lot of garbage, we need environmental bacteria." ”
The assistant knew Carson was serious, and he said, "What about this paper? ”
"In the first article of the next issue, I hope that Bluestar will remember the efforts made by Nature to publish the paper, and I hope that Chen Nuo will agree to cooperate with us."
Carson is not only the editor-in-chief of biotechnology in the journal Nature, but also the head of Imperial College's microbiology laboratory, which would make a big difference to environmental protection in the UK if it could lead to a partnership between Bluestar and Imperial College.
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Hua Guo, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Microbiology Laboratory.
Minister Wan also brought Chen Nuo's paper to the think tank of the Chinese Academy of Sciences for research.
Director Bai of the Institute of Microbiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences did not immediately confirm the authenticity of Bluestar's scientific research, saying: "The results of the experiment are so surprising that I think it is necessary for us to lead a team of experts to Ningyi County to have a look." ”
Minister Wan nodded and said, "I agree with Lao Bai's suggestion. ”
Director Bai said: "Regardless of whether the results of Bluestar's research are true or there are doubts, I think our media community should reflect on it. What kind of fire headlines, criticizing the Blue Star Company without asking questions, and I don't think the quality of their news is high, it's just that kind of exaggerated hype. This kind of media environment is very unfavorable to our scientific researchers! ”
Minister Wan opened the headlines of the fire and found that the APP had collapsed, and he said with a smile: "I will respond to the media, but now the Blue Star Company has taken action." ”
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