Allen,

You are giving away the scientists code here.

Interesting == more study is needed and there are issues to explore. Just
give us some more money and we'll be all set. And it usually means those
issues are not boring ones, but where if the research panned out, one would
be setting precedents (ie, you end up getting cited by future research,
preferably research where you get the funding).

The problem with small cell is where would the money for research come from?
With the government's push to have industry fund the research in the area,
there has to be an economic incentive (usually from a patentable product,
such as SMR queens) to get stockholders interested in letting a company fund
such projects.

In the case of foundation size -- if it works, everyone would have to go,
but there is nothing there to patent. Instead, the problem is one of pure
research and dollars for such are lacking today (at least in most fields of
which I am aware).

Karen