These sorts of stories really drive me crazy. I am looking for investors in my own endeavor and they want to eat my lunch for peanuts. Where do these bozos find these people?
Your message interests me, you sound like a kindred soul. I've invented LOTS of ideas but avoid patents, lawyers like the plague, they'll suck you dry in a flash, and nothing to show for it but a worthless piece of paper. We do have one faint hope though : european billionaires with a "provident fund". My collegue has been hoping to see some of that $15B as an on-going grant to develop nuc-rad-waste remediation technology for 4 years now, still waiting. I chide him that he's turning into a spider web covered skeleton sitting by the phone, awaiting the CALL. Anyway, mail me privately and maybe we can share some ideas. IF, a big IF, the major funding comes through on one or more of the dozens of new energy concepts we have discovered/invented over the years; perhaps we can incorporate some of your concepts too. I did get a call from my senator's office today about one of my ideas : MHD - "plasma film-belt", and possible development. So, don't despair, hope springs eternal in the human breast.