[soundman98]

that's really cool. but the next/worst step is getting production scaled up to mass production. many of these ideas fall flat at that stage.

for a short time, my company was the electrical contractor working with some engineers that had come up with a new process to convert the useless slag that was just dumped off to one side of the steel factory property into something useful. they were able to repeatedly demonstrate the viability of the process in a lab setting, but it was the first time they were attempting a full-scale version of the same process.

they ultimately failed, but were congratulated, as their process failed closer to the end product than other techniques at the same problem. so it was good, but a long way to go yet...