I'd ask an old chemical engineer about that. In general, "it'd be easy to scale up process X" is very different from "we would not lose $millions every week if

I'd ask an old chemical engineer about that. In general, "it'd be easy to scale up process X" is very different from "we would not lose $millions every week if we did that". And every "valuable" product of your reaction has to be separated, purified, packaged, sold, & shipped. Into a market with its own supply-demand price curve.