While I’m all for funding science , we kind of know what the option space is for energy, and sometimes you can’t innovate your way out of situations, sometimes that magical energy saviour doesn’t appear , and sometimes the solution is just being a more sane society. One example I always give , make mixed use neighborhoods legal , if you made grocery trips walkable in every city it could be billions less fossil fuels consumed per year . If you banned advertising people might consume billions tons less etc… but people will cling to a dead branch in history and end up dead because of it.
While I’m all for funding science , we kind of know what the option space is for energy, and sometimes you can’t innovate your way out of situations, sometimes that magical energy saviour doesn’t appear , and sometimes the solution is just being a more sane society. One example I always give , make mixed use neighborhoods legal , if you made grocery trips walkable in every city it could be billions less fossil fuels consumed per year . If you banned advertising people might consume billions tons less etc… but people will cling to a dead branch in history and end up dead because of it.