“Wonder what boondoggle will evolve from this discovery?”
Certainly it must be a strategy of “clean energy” scientists to put out press releases that create over-excitement and fawning press coverage, all with the ultimate goal of securing more government grant money. My guess is that most of these ideas are completely impractical or unworkable when scaled up.
Often true. As Sturgeon's Law puts it "90% of everything is crap". But you've gotta do the research to find the 10% that are good ideas.
“My guess is that most of these ideas are completely impractical or unworkable when scaled up.”
But, you have to give the Chinese guy some credit for understanding energy inputs and outputs - unlike the idiots in the government pushing ethanol...