Sustainabilitylive exhibition

This week I went to the sustainabilitylive exhibition which exhibits companies and new technologies in the forefront of environmental technologies. The exhibition was divided into five different sections: Water and sewage sustainability, Environmental technologies, Brownfield/land remediation, Energy management and sustainable business.

There were talks on innovative ways companies and organization reduce energy costs and how to become more carbon neutral. There were stands exhibiting technologies ranging on Anaerobic digestion, water filtration and biological land remediation to wind energy and robotic jelly fish.






Cool Robotic Jelly fish in a fish tank. I asked what it was used for and was expecting an answer along the lines of a groundbreaking world changing state of the art technology for turning seawater into drinkable water or something. It turns out it only floats up and down and was only there to attract delegates and prove that they are able to handle on the manufacture of innovative machinery. It did serve its purpose in attracting attention though.

There was also a competiton a 'Drilling and Tapping' competition for the water industry where contestants were timed to be the fastest in creating a hole in the water filled water-pipe and connecting it to another machinery. As well as being timed for being the fastest they were penalized for the amount of water they lose during the process. It was definitely interesting and whats more, I was quite surprised to see how many female contestants there were!