Admirable but ultimately I suspect this will come to nothing. Sadly government attention is fleeting, R&D is far, far, down the list in terms of the national pr

Admirable but ultimately I suspect this will come to nothing. Sadly government attention is fleeting, R&D is far, far, down the list in terms of the national priorities (NHS is always top, the national religion with fanatical supporters). Take nuclear power for instance. The world has about 800 research/test reactors. About 250 are currently in-use. 0 of them are in the UK. This kind of statistic can be repeated over and over for any given area of research. I no-longer believe the barriers are financial, it is the regulatory ones that are hardest to remove. Goes for any physical endeavour here. Be it furnace or foundry, reactor or rocketry.