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Linda Becker is the associate publisher and founding editor of Process Cooling and Process Heating magazine. Linda is also a veteran of the manufacturing beat; she has more than 20 years’ experience covering manufacturing operations.
Around this time last year, we were all awakening to the pandemic — and how it might change our plans for 2020 and beyond. Around the same Process Cooling, along with our sister publication, Process Heating, announced the inaugural Process Heating & Cooling Show, originally scheduled for June 2021.
As we ended 2019, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 was already among us — though most were unaware — though it was not yet holding the world in a pandemic’s grip.
In 2020, COVID-19 has, in its own way, presented each of us with challenges and opportunities we could not have foreseen at the beginning of the year. Yet, that does not mean it must be a year in which we forego the experiences we value! Instead, we only must be willing to embrace the opportunities as they are presented to us.
The more things change, the more they stay the same, noted Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr in Les Guêpes July 1848. (To be precise, he said it in French, but the sentiment is true in any language.) In 2020, I have been reminded time and again how true this epigram is.
What a difference a few months — or weeks — can make. In January, as I was attending AHR Expo in Orlando, there was little talk of COVID-19 or the coronavirus that causes the disease.
In 2021, Process Cooling — with our sister publication, Process Heating — will play host to the inaugural Process Heating & Cooling Show, the only tradeshow to focus specifically on industrial applications.
I’ll admit, I’m a little out of touch on office décor: I have worked remotely since the mid-2000s. Do companies still display the framed art with inspirational sayings paired with dramatic photographs? You know the kind: an eagle soars across the sky in a black matte frame above a meaningful quote about ambition or excellence. If they don’t, they should.
Some farms grow food,” says the soothing yet authoritative voiceover in the commercial. “This one grows fuel.” So begins a recent television commercial from ExxonMobil that brings again to the consumer consciousness the idea of growing algae for biofuel production.