http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2012/08/start/and-heres-my-nuclear-reactor I'm trying to convince a buddy of mine to do something similar now.
Pretty cool. It's probably going to take a small private inventor to discover (or rediscover) a source of cheap and nearly limitless power.
Industry allow for it. They'll either buy up the patent (every man has thier price), or the guy will dissapear and his estate will sell the patent.