Who Did You Interview?
- Boran — My roommate
Demographics That Might Provide Helpful Context for Their Responses
- SDC - Energy track. He likes to analysis this problem from energy efficiency way.
- His hometown is inner Mongolia, which is a highly polluted area by overexploitation of coal mines.
- His internship was all about sustainable materials.
Key Findings from the Interview
- He thinks this new material would definitely have lower energy consumption since the plastic bottles are pre-made, so people don’t need to consume energy to manufacture the raw materials.
- He would manage and calculate how to make the profit as big as possible, even if it may bad to the environment. Most people are realistic.
- He cares a lot about thermal resistance factor. The plastic material usually has a bad fire resistance behavior.