It's a rough time for any government agency doing research, if they're not being slashed entirely the whole funding process is being redirected away from any so

It's a rough time for any government agency doing research, if they're not being slashed entirely the whole funding process is being redirected away from any sort of renewable energy and to fossil fuels. At a DOE conference a year or two ago the speaker from the government pretty explicitly said most funding will be going to research into things related to fossil fuels (coal, fracking, etc).