Thanks for taking the time to write your thoughts on this David, interesting thoughts for sure.
The problem is, if this is true, and if the fuel is used, and the profits inevitably yielded from it, this goes straight to temperature, which isn't about greenhouse gases, it's about destruction, profit is monetised destruction, and this is increase of entropy. So if that fuel store is used, the price the planet, and subsequently the majority of people will pay, is far greater than the potential money made from the use of the fuel.
Imagine new York investors for example investing in this, whilst this summer again being suffocated from Canadian wildfires, 1000km away. This year will be worse, probably exponentially worse, because we've just recorded the twelveth month in a row of the highest temperatures ever recorded.
We are in for a beating, by nature, which should lead us to the conclusion that profit is no longer fit for purpose, it is becoming literally impossible to make profit, so pretty soon we will need to change to a different economic model to avoid more genocide in any case.
Solar indexed stimulus "Kardashev Money" fits all requirements and all stakeholder concerns, I think.
Check out Amazon E-book "The Energy Polarity Multiplier Framework" for more details.