I have never ever said 'Oh it will never work'. I just want to see how these world savers, when done on a laboratory bench , will transfer to working on a commercial level.
The problem is these wonder discoveries are rolled out at the rate of at least one a day and only about one in a hundred, gets any further. one cannot be reminded of the story of the boy who kept shouting 'wolf' when there was no wolf. When there was really a wolf, nobody took any notice of him.
I understand that scientists have to publish a paper every time they make a minor advance in order to claim ownership of the development to establish it as their intellectual property. Unfortunately too many journalists looking for headlines hype up small developments on a long road as dramatic breakthroughs, when quite simply they aren't.