There is research and then there’s vaporware which is design to suck in investment dollars and grant money with no chance of ever producing a viable product. Some fools are always taken in if there’s enough technical sounding gobbledegook in the description and a multi syllable title. And the government is always ready to throw money at things that makes no sense - like electric cars.
So now you’ve moved from your apples-to-oranges onto the standard vaporware criticism of research without addressing the original fallacy. Trying to hide your tracks, to obfuscate, to change the subject.