[petek]

These kinds of "discoveries" remind me of when (back in the 60's) my uncle tried to get my father to invest in a scheme to convert milk into gasoline. My father, who was a chemical engineer, pointed out that besides the fact that it wasn't scientifically sound, the cost difference between milk and gas was so small that even if it did work, the milk feedstock would cost more than the gas it supposedly would produce. My uncle insisted that the inventors had a "secret formula" which obviously was their key to success, and proceeded to lose a bundle to the scam.

Maybe they'd have had better luck if they'd modified a "100 mile per gallon carburator" to run on milk...