[Protagoras]

However, it is currently being sold (and funded by your tax dollars) as a serious competitor, alternative and compliment to conventional electrical generation.

Government should not be funding anything like this. Which, however, does not mean that science will never find a way to convert it to power which does make sense. The whole concept is in it's infancy. No way to know if it will ever pan out.

[Boot Hill]

By the very act of funding such a poor system, the government is inhibiting the very research that could lead to an honest break through in the field.

--Boot Hill