On: Bill Gates: If you read one thing about climate ch...

[paulddraper]

> Government support for energy R&D is one of the best opportunities to fight climate change.

To give an idea of the current spend:

In 2016, the U.S. spent $11 billion on renewable energy subsidies and $3 billion on energy efficiency. [1]

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/uhenergy/2018/03/23/renewable-e...

[reddickulous → paulddraper]

Are government subsidies actually a good way to promote R&D? The U.S. has a couple notable failures there (ethanol/corn, and Solyndra).

And Germany has put billions and billions of Euros into their aggressive renewable energy push with very little to show for it.

https://m.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-failure-on...