They must really hate plant life. So where is all the energy to run this process (and refine and process the magic chemicals) going to come from? Oh yea, it's going to be clean energy like wind power, taken from that giant surplus when wind scales up to power all homes and factories and municipal treatment plants. So much left over. Many happy energy.
Meanwhile, in the making not using energy department, Kirk Sorensen gets a paltry ~3 million from DOE that isn't even to be put towards development of Weinberg's MSRE concept.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG1YjDdI_c8&t=44m40s
I fear for the human race.