The Industrialist

"Miss Jaqi, you do the honors," Doctor Zee said.

Jaqi nodded with seriousness in his expression. "Components used in the casings and tentacles?"

It was an expected question from the founder of CISU. CISU’s best interest filtered projects that only use legal scrap components from scrap yards within the City.

If found to be out of the Scrap inventory, or maybe a component was smuggled, that’s when CISU came in with the full might of the police force on its back.

Lance suspected that like all other established regulating agencies especially born from the Corporation that had been authorized with intricate regulations to impose amended laws.

Her age, her authority, and the respect given by his fellow panelists added more to the mystery behind Jaqi.

’Who is this girl?’

It took obvious moments that Lance was not able to answer Jaqi’s question. Then Jaqi raised the concern, "Lance Berkley of Steelpoint, can you share with us the breakdown of the components used in RoFlo?"

"Well. The casings. I used uncommon materials from the Scrapyard tier 2. This is an enhanced Stainless steel number 303-A from second-generation residential service robots. Heated Benzium plated the entire surface of the spheres to maintain a certain buoyancy and floating capabilities."

Jaqi nodded, somewhat an agreeable expression. It boosted more confidence in the inventor.

"We will confirm your material declarations with the assessment team after your presentation. Remember, Lance Berkley, you will be forfeited if you declare the data falsely." Jaqi reminded. Then she asked, "What about the tentacles?"

"The tentacles are uncommon level too, just like its casings. The strands were extracted from Magnetum metallic wires from PLC boards of AI skulls."

The term ’AI skulls’ was a terminology used by scientists to represent the widely used Artificial Intelligence core processors, usually placed inside the humanoid robots’ heads.

"It is also shown in the schematic soft copies I sent with the other panelists the list of regulated components used in this project," Lance continued.

"Unfortunately, it seems I am the only one who missed receiving the soft copy," Jaqi said.

"Apologies, Miss Jaqi. I will send it to you shortly," Lance responded.

Lance took out his CloudArchive tab and sent RoFlo’s details to Jaqi.

"It’s fine, Lance Berkley. I had not informed the staff that I would be joining this presentation, since this is my first time."

"What pollutants magnetized towards the tentacles?" It was Doctor Cultz who questioned. He had his Masters of Further Education in Advance Electrical Engineering and his question defined his expertise.

Lance knew that Doctor Cultz had an idea about magnetism as Electrical motors do and it was almost the same concept.

"Our wastewater by design has a mixture of 15% heavy metals that we cannot see in the naked eye. Because of their characteristics, these pollutants tend to collect heavy metals in the water. The tentacles with a jolt of minute electric shock in calibrated rhythms magnetized the pollutants towards them.

The Magnetum wire has the characteristic that able to amplify the magnetic rhythm to magnetize to even the smallest heavy metals in the water."

"Hmm…interesting," Doctor Cultz said. "The Magnetum is a sensitive substance with an electrical threshold that could be oxidized in the shortest amount of time if set beyond its threshold. Tell me your process."

"It is true, Doctor Cultz. This is the most challenging part of reaching within its threshold with its surface area reduced. Magnetum has a threshold of 0.005 microvolts with the intricate of minuscule voltage regulators inside the spheres to control the surges."

Lance took one sphere out of the water just a little above it and opened a hatch with a digital panel. Then he clicked a button and the readings were displayed on the digital screen.

"In this digital display, the voltage feed towards the tentacles is below the threshold, 0.0045 microvolts to stabilize the electricity, prevent premature oxidization, and maintain its magnetism."

Doctor Cultz nodded and trained his hand on the tab. They were recording the points every after the panelist questioned the inventor.

"Have you computed the amount of metallic substance in the F.O.G?"

It was Doctor Greggory. His questions were always the challenging ones. Lance had not studied the metallic composition and levels that attracted with the specks of F.O.G. And the question gave him a sharp stab to his heart that made his beating more pronounced.

"I haven’t measured the metallic amount in F.O.G. but in theory, there is a certain range in terms of specific gravity of metallic substance that would attract in any electromagnetic force.

Applying Brakners Theory of micromagnetism, in a microscopic spectrum of surface areas of metals, the magnetism should have a multiplier of one hundred in surface area, multiplied by the amperage of the magnetic source would activate electrons for metallic attraction."

His answer made him release an inward sigh. Although he had not actually have studied about it, he knew the concept of it.

Doctor Greggory gave him a hard look, his nonchalant stares turned to sour.

"Are you sure about Brakners?" The Doctor asked.

"I know, Doctor Greggory. Brakner’s theory is debatable as of the moment as our current equipment could not solidly support his claims. But it is the soundest of all the theories relating to micromagnetism and it is the only theory that the Academy of Science has considered in Micromagnetism and Microelectronics courses."

Theories remained theories if not support by hard evidence conducted by Science Authorities. Brakner’s theory was not studied because of the lack of high-tech equipment that could measure such claims.

Doctor Greggory only nodded. Doctor Zee whispered to Doctor Greggory, and the latter nodded. He only hoped that his defense was agreeable to the panelists.

"How do you know the lectures of Microelectronics and Micromagnetism courses? You haven’t gone to a collegiate course yet." It was Mister Tanaka who asked. His line of questioning always clouded with the premise that Lance was the son of a long-lost brilliant Scientist.

"It is true Mister Tanaka. I haven’t gone to collegiate courses yet. But as an Aspiring scientist like me, I frequented my visits to High Academia Archives of Science Knowledge."

A truth in what he said. The High Academia Archives was an establishment that holds all the knowledge and fields of Science throughout the history after Nuclear World War and the salvaged knowledge before it.

It was a digital library of their current age.

It was unfortunate for Mister Tanaka that Lance’s project had no perpetual energy design that would spark the former’s interest. The spheres were powered by batteries, however, the drive for the Corporation nowadays was to utilize fully the concept of perpetual energy without the use of an Energy source such as batteries and diesel.

"What powered the spheres?" Mister Tanaka asked. Lance practiced this question before. He anticipated where the question would go.

"Batteries, Mister Tanaka," Lance answered.

"Batteries? Have you considered using an alternate power source?"

"I have considered it, Mister Tanaka, in fact, I have mentioned it in the ’Future applications and recommendations for mass manufacturing’ section in my presentation that an alternate power source is amenable."

Mister Tanaka opened his tab and dragged it way over the last part of the presentation as protocol suggests that such a section was at least parts.

"I see. You have considered four ways of using an alternative energy source. Good. Good. Hm. Hm.

Good." Tanaka said as he read the article with his own eyes.

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The Industrialist Tier 1, Doctor Zee, smiled.

"I see you also have future recommendations here including how to mass produce this which started in metal forging, even the recommending process and workflow."

Doctor Zee, as an industrialist, had become an expert of manufacturing industries – the main function of any Industrialist in the Corporation is to oversee factories.

Lance had prepared his presentation for Doctor Zee, mainly in the future applications and recommendations. The inventor, because of the lack of industrial equipment and only depended on the limitations of a fabrication table, would include his manufacturing recommendation in this section.

"You are very elaborate here. You even included the recommended designs of the whole wastewater facility for efficiency. It seems you answered my possible questions." Doctor Zee smiled.

Despite Lance’s secret lifestyle and hectic schedules, and all his illegal exploits outside the wall and with his current business dealings with the Mafia, he managed to prepare his defense to the best he could.

Thanks to his father’s teachings.

An hour as passed and the water tank was clear now. All blackish and brownish specks were magnetized to the tentacles. Lance pulled the RoFlos out of the water together with the magnetized lumps of pollution on the tentacles and drained all of the pollutants in another container with one simple click. The tentacles retracted inside the spheres.

There were no applauses. Only further observation and further reading about the presentation. Indiscernibly, Jaqi had her ecstatic smile upon the inventor.