I am unclear what you are saying about corporations -- they have the means and motive to squash any innovation, and have a long history of doing so.
My advice is go to China, directly to China and disengage with established US and European capital. I really hope that is what is being done, because the minute invested capital can get a share in any company producing an alternative to oil, that company will not produce a thing.
It is dangerous to think that we can deal with established resource capital, after all they did not mind killing people in wars just to ensure oil would be traded in USD.
China is new capital, moreover capital looking for productive things to do, and China is energy poor, That is the place to go and the place to see LENR units produced in the 10s of millions, this will not happen in Europe and the US as things stand. We are seeing a shift in capital into Eurasia and a break with 130 years of capital history.
he LENR community has to learn the political economy basics, it is not the amount of money that is important but what it is doing,