Julian had managed to temporarily cast his worries aside come morning because he was too excited about getting started on making that doraveld. He told his lab assistants to continue working on the solar power battery experiments because he was going to handle this personally.
This knowledge had come from the future so he needed to tread lightly with it. According to the research notes, his future self hadn't managed to pull it off until 2022.
While it would be wonderful to mass produce this earlier, he wasn't sure how that would affect the timeline, if at all. He may need to put it on the backburner for a while after he made those wire covers, as much as it pained him.