Technology that can get Europe off of natural gas would be tremendously helpful, and we already needed to be working on that yesterday because of climate change

Technology that can get Europe off of natural gas would be tremendously helpful, and we already needed to be working on that yesterday because of climate change. Perhaps this war will provide a psychological incentive to do what needs to be done. This research could be carried out anywhere and there would be no need to classify it unlike military R&D so it can immediately be put into practice. My hope in the US is that there will be motivation to direct some of our bloated military budget to renewables research. The long term impacts of dismantling Russia's leverage over europe through alternative energy sources will be larger than merely inventing a better gun.