Part of the concept of the RD&D (research, development and demonstration) leases is not only to prove the technology but also the economic viability of the technology.

How much oil shale technology has developed will become much more apparent in the commercial applications.

If something was drastically overlooked, it wouldn't have the widespread impact that things did back in the 1970s and 1980s when it didn't work out the first time.

Our research team made patient-specific embryonic stem cells and we have the technology to produce them.

What's happening now is that a lot of the technology and research to go to Mars are being put off for the purpose of getting to the moon, which was just supposed to have been a training ground for Mars. The means is becoming the end.

The most important thing for them to do is to do research and develop goals and a plan for their future. They all have so much potential.