When asked why he thinks he is alone in researching lightning physics and why there is no NASA research lab doing this, Leyh responds that DARPA and other agencies are busy doing other things to violate basic physics, and if you want to look at what people are interested in, you just go to Kickstarter or IndieGoGo and see things raising all the money are like little clips for your iPhone, and nobody is really interested in pure research the way they used to be.