NOVELTY - Sustainable economic development process comprises: extracting carbon from a carbon source using at least one of e.g. thermal dissociation; forming an architectural construct using the carbon, where architectural construct provides a reaction zone; and collecting energy from a renewable resource, where the energy is at least partially received in the reaction zone, and the energy that is collected is greater than the amount of energy that could have been converted by the oxidation of the carbon by means of e.g. an internal combustion engine, external combustion engine, or thermoelectric cell.    USE - The process is useful for extracting carbon or pressurized hydrogen from a water-based resource to produce hydrogen.    ADVANTAGE - The process: utilizes renewable resource including solar, wind, moving water, geothermal or biomass (claimed); provides rapid isolation and removal of hydrogen upon production by presentation of electrons to hydrogen ions; improved conduction and distribution of electrons to a much larger net area than the apparent area of the architectural construct electrode; improved rate of production by expediting the presentation of hydrogen ions, hosting nucleation and/or transporting hydrogen atoms to nucleation sites, and removing diatomic hydrogen along passageways between graphene layers to prevent competitive uses of hydrogen that cause reduced net production.    DETAILED DESCRIPTION - Sustainable economic development process comprises: extracting carbon from a carbon source using at least one of thermal dissociation, electrical dissociation, optical dissociation and magnetic dissociation; forming an architectural construct using the carbon, where the architectural construct provides a reaction zone; and collecting energy from a renewable resource, where the energy is at least partially received in the reaction zone, and the energy that is collected is greater than the amount of energy that could have been converted by the oxidation of the carbon by means of an internal combustion engine, external combustion engine, electrochemical fuel cell or a thermoelectric cell. An INDEPENDENT CLAIM is also included for a process for extracting carbon or pressurized hydrogen from a water-based resource, comprising: supplying the water-based resource having a carbon source to an electrolyzer, where the electrolyzer includes an architectural structure for catalyzing the extraction of carbon or the pressurized hydrogen in a reaction zone; anaerobically digesting a carbon source with a microorganism in the reaction zone; and dissociating at least a portion of the water-based resource into at least hydrogen and another substance by electrolysis, where the hydrogen is pressurized to an extent greater than an initial pressure of the water-based resource.