Aha, we are in pretty much the same boat :)
I've given up trying to maintain appearance of business as usual. To me we are heading for a show-down, between those who just want to be, or stay rich, regardless of anybody else, at the expense of extinction, literally, and those of us really wanting a different world, at least for the sake of our kids.
I never expected to take an interest in these things, which might seem non technical, to purist "Techies" but it is inevitable from a Systems Engineering point of view after we realise that a stakeholder system model, including all the concerns and drivers of all actors including the environment, and future humanity, have to be taken into account, traced to the solution, to be able to see and be confident of the solution.
I've never yet found a business willing to fund my efforts to this end, I do it at my own expense, which has seen my standard of living drop steadily since I started around 2017. But I am prepared to do until I literally run out of resources, because I have never experienced a more satisfying task, more satisfying even than historically creating patents in energy technology. This is worth more than all the money I made in my career to date, a lot of which I never personally saw anyway. This makes it all worthwhile, it seems to me.
Btw, the solution will not only enable us all to keep flying, but even start flying to the stars, it seems to me.
Another revelation which becomes clear is that all the "progress" we made to date isn't actually down to the profit driven competitive system at all, but in spite of it. This has been something wrong for about 120 years, since Nikola Tesla, who must have had a hell of a head for Systems Engineering, in absence of the formal techniques we have now, to have figured out the solution back then, all by himself, he knew the answer was solar, and that is what he was trying to deliver, a form of solar energy for all people, combined with internet-like connectivity. If we'd had it, we might have avoided two world wars, nuclear power and weapons, and at least two pandemics. The death count of all of that, and consequential loss of genius is almost too much to imagine. He was defunded by his only funder, JP Morgan, presumably when Morgan realised the impact to his bank that would be made by free energy, which has to come hand in hand with free money. The bank still has the power to change this now, but will they? Who knows. Exciting times :)
Here is my latest, which is relevant to that last question:
