As most science goes, awesome observations, great experimentation and even the hardest understanding of what is going on can not make something practical. That being said there needs to be more of that kind of research and showing people that even without the harde observational science backgrounds go such as in deeper physics, that something can be DONE with what is occuring, and that exploring what else can be DONE is a good thing, but the budget is lower and the science is weaker because those million dollar instruments arent' there to figure out what's going on.
Unfortunately as much junk science comes out of this as true understanding.