The effort turned out to be frustrating, because huge multinationals like Whirlpool, Siemens, and GE were already dominating this field. However, though neither of the plans succeeded in a commercial sense, the research team came away with a very solid grounding in the relevant technologies.
無奈這兩大領域在國際上已有惠普、西門子及奇異等跨國霸主壟斷，極難打入市場，最後計畫沒有成功，但專案團隊的技術卻很紮實。