Don’t worry about the money. Money will come. keep this stuff open sourced. Big oil may shut you down or create life threatening situation, but they cannot suppress the internet or millions of people who also know how to make it. Don’t keep this just to yourself. keep it open. Designs, processes, methods, etc. Your money will come. We don’t really need that much money to be happy. Happiness is achieved by some other means, not money.

Obviously it doesn’t make much sense to burn hydrocarbons for energy as they can be much better used for organic synthesis. But the new technologies, like fuel cells, Polywell or whatever must be built on top of hydrocarbons as they are in many ways the best energy sources as for now.

As for the general energy market trends I recommend two excellent books – Daniel Yergin “The Quest” and Julian Simon “The Ultimate Resource”.

“A reduction of per capita energy consumption has always in the past led to a decline in civilization and a reversion to a more primitive way of life…Anyone who has watched a sweating Chinese farm worker strain at his heavily laden wheelbarrow, creaking along a cobblestone road, or who has flinched as he drives past an endless procession of human beasts of burden moving to market in Java – the slender women bent under mountainous loads heaped on their heads – anyone who has seen statistics translated into flesh and bone, realizes the degradation of man’s stature when his muscle power becomes the only energy source he can afford. Civilization must wither when human beings are so degraded….High-energy consumption has always been a prerequisite of political power. The tendency is for political power to be concentrated in an ever-smaller number of countries. Ultimately, the nation which controls the largest energy resources will become dominant.”

~ Admiral Hyman George Rickover