So I'm an engineer. Instrumentation and Controls engineering is my specialty. I'm also an obsessive weirdo autistic person. In one of my special interests I ended up finding a material that reacted to heat in a way that I found very interesting.

I now have a process for turning ambient heat into electricity. I don't make a ton of money right now, and I want to get rich off of this because it's a f****** good idea, not to toot my own horn.

Without getting too much into the details, I use a series of state changes to convert ambient heat into electricity. Requires power input to start it and then it can run off with the heat that it pulls out of the air.

It's not perpetual motion, it's not over-unity. If you put it in a closed room, the room will get cold and the machine will stop running.

The moral dilemma is that I feel like I should just tell people how to do it because it's so easy and obvious once you know the trick that the second I tell somebody how to do it they're going to steal it from me and I'm never going to see a dime, and I at least want to be rich enough that me and my family are secure for trading humanity and invention like this.

Edit: Thanks for the honest answers you guys are giving me some stuff to think about.