There is a way: private money. There are plenty of billionaires and they can spend their cash hunting the solutions, not ours.
Surely there’s a better way than that to get at all the heat bombarding this planet.
Petroleum is the result and we should be using it. Look at Thorium as a potentially safe nuclear alternative. Newt is behind the curve on this and is bent on money.
I agree with you in most cases about R&D money. I don’t think solar, wind, etc., are such huge undertakings that they are beyond the capacity of individuals/corporations to undertake on their own.