Is truely a "breakthrough" at MIT ?

[Jo Ferg]

I was surprised by the hyperbole out of the MIT News Dept...
I got really excited because it seemed as though they had been able to leverage the power of "photosynthesis" in a lab setting...but the details are lacking, and my bull$hit detector got set off by the lack of substantial data, or descriptions.

What's your opinion of the value of this "breakthrough"...Have you seen any signs of this being commercialized yet? At least some links to better info have trickled into the Comments section...

http://environauts.wordpress.com/2010/01/15/has-pr-trumped-science-at-mit/

Hopefully
Jo

[Russ Bailey]

Many people and especially the green bloggers troll the MİT site looking for something to write about (get paid for).

Anything they find there as a new break through:

1. Probably has one chance in a thousand of ever making it to real time for various technical reasons the student has yet to come across
2. İs at least 10 years if not 50 away from production
3. Has probably never been more than a lab experiment
4. May well be a students egg headed idea approved by an equally egg headed prof