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“Solar energy…”
Young-Joon stared at the banner that was hung on the building.
“Are you interested?” Ban Du-Il asked.
“I am. Do you remember that cold chain contest the Gates Foundation had back in the day?” Young-Joon replied.
“Yeah, you applied for it. You said you were going to get research funding and a scholarship, but…”
“I didn’t even make it far enough to present.”
“The idea you wrote was to attach a solar generator to the transportation to keep the medicine or food cold as it traveled from the equator to the interior of Africa?”
“Yeah.”
“Why didn’t you get in?”
“They said that the cost of installing and maintaining solar-integrated panels large enough to provide that much power on a ship or vehicle was impractical.”
“I see.”
“And you have to store the power when it’s sunny to make up for the lack of power during cloudy weather or at night, which they said would be difficult.”
“Who ended up winning that contest?” Ban Du-Il asked.
“No one did. There were no winners who had their ideas commercialized. They just gave a few recognition awards to creative ideas, and that was it,” Young-Joon replied.
“Do you want to listen to that seminar?”
“Can visitors listen to it? It’s not even a seminar being held by our department, right?”
“If Ryu Young-Joon...
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