Pretty much my thinking as well. It's not a question of not investing in clean energy, it's a question which is a better bang for the buck and which gets us to

Pretty much my thinking as well. It's not a question of not investing in clean energy, it's a question which is a better bang for the buck and which gets us to fully carbon free energy faster and more reliably. Economies of scale would drive the costs of power plants down like you wouldn't believe. And then there's the secondary effect of more investment into nuclear physics research, which, after we figure out fusion will make carbon based energy completely obsolete everywhere, forever.