Where should we spend our time instead?

Definitely not novel at this stage, but once we modify the AWG to achieve water reclamation from urine, would that be considered novel?

The next milestone is to create open source designs for larger-scale, commercially available machines that are prohibitively expensive, and improve upon them. The machines exist and there is a market for them. Is it not worth the time and effort to increase access to technologies like this?

Not just knowledge of chemistry, but actively developing eyedrops to cure cataracts :)

http://www.viewpointtherapeutics.com/team/

EDIT: Wording. Added question.