“We expect people to think that this is a totally crazy idea,” says Chiang, who is the Kyocera Professor of Ceramics. “If they didn’t, I’d be a bit disappointed because if people don’t think something is totally crazy at first, it probably isn’t going to be that revolutionary.”

Now that’s the kind of inspirational quote I could imagine on my office wall.

This actually looks pretty promising. I hope it works out! I honestly could see this being incredibly useful for stuff outside of aviation too. If you can keep the metals hot, you could potentially run cargo ships and other large vehicles off this stuff too. Cruise ships and certain types of power storage also come to mind.