I guess if he attracts enough funding to make a living, good luck to him. This isn't worth investigating now because of the obvious prior technologies we would need to develop before we even considered propulsion. Currently we can generate and store, for a short while, a countably small number of atoms. If we ever get up to the dizzy heights of storing, say, 0.0000001g for 1 minute, maybe we can think about how to use it.

So to answer the question in the article, no, we can't.