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3. Unfolding into Industrial Sector

A while after beginning mushroom cultivation as a side job, I decided to seriously launch electron-wave water treatment units (consuming 10 W of a-c power) for the treatment of cooling water.
I wished if the treatment unit could meet the demand of the near-future society, providing a "drinkable water" (although not drunk by anyone) without using chemicals.
The three pillars of cooling-water treatment are: (1) corrosion/rust prevention, (2) descaling, and (3) algae/slime/Legionella decomposition. According to organic/inorganic classifications, (1) is inorganic, (3) is organic, and (2) is a mixture of inorganic and organic matter. The treatment unit is ineffective for organics.
To make "drinkable cooling water" a reality, drinkable matter must be used to drive off organics.Since algae and slime consist mainly of anaerobic microbes, aerobic microbes such as edible mushroom can be put into a tank so they become dominant and defeat anaerobic microbes. The next problem is to determine the species, quantity, amount, and capacity of aerobic microbes.

4. A Barrier

To decompose scale, a physical device must be used as well. This physical device should not inhibit algae activity, as that would damage anaerobic microbes. In an physically and chemically unfavorable environment, anaerobic microbes are by far stronger than aerobic microbes. This is immediately obvious by looking into a dirty water bath. Anaerobic microbes came into 600 million years after Earth's formation, whereas aerobic microbes came into being two billion years after that.

In a water environment where physical power seriously damages anaerobic microbes (the origin in the living world), aerobic microbes cannot live. However, only if a suitable environment is provided, aerobic microbes that decompose organic matter using oxygen can produce an amount of energy 20 times the fermentation by anaerobic microbes.
I discovered that the visible rays (similar to sound waves) emitted by the electron-wave water treatment unit activate ferrous ions and aerobic microbes without activating anaerobic microbes.

5. Accidental Patent

Based on the above finding, I built a theory, which obtained a patent. Here is a summary of the patent:
"Ferrous ion plays an important role in the electron transport system of energy synthesis ATP (adenosine triphosphate). It is considered that activating ferrous ion activates energy synthesis, which activates cells and therefore organisms.Activated ferrous ion activates hemoglobin and myoglobin which are oxygen carriers and contain iron atoms. As a result, absolute aerobic microbes are activated, while facultative and absolute anaerobes remain inactive and are excluded or decomposed."
-- Japan Patent No.3200374/Water Treatment Method. Application Date:10/11/1996

6. Electron-Wave Water Treatment Unit

The scale that develops in industrial heat exchangers, compressors, and the coils of airtight cooling tower has tremendous power. Any means intended to replace chemicals must include a physical device capable of dissolving the extraordinary scale power.

Although ME-Bio is put in some equipment for the sole purpose of treating alga where scale load is light, a commercially viable solution must have a technological capability of working well in severe conditions. The electron-wave water treatment unit featuring such a capability can be installed very easily as it is a non-contact installation design. The light rays from the unit are cast across the target equipment and the water surface in the tank. Once the unit is placed near the target equipment, for example an absorption water cooling/heating machine, the cold water, cooling water, and hot water can be treated simultaneously.