[stuartcr]

Just because an investment isn’t attractive, is that reason for not doing research? Who is going to bite the bullet when it comes to actually trying to research fuels other than bio or petro?

[Beagle8U]

“Just because an investment isn’t attractive, is that reason for not doing research?”

Why spend money researching something that is a waste of time?

If round wheels work just fine, why spend money to study ways to use square ones?

Wind/solar are stupid ideas that will never work on a large scale. It would take a battery the size of Europe to store it.

[bert]

.......Just because an investment isn’t attractive, is that reason for not doing research? .....

Recall if you will the decade of the 70’s. All the alternative energy sources we hear about today and many many more we don’t, have been incentivised, granted and researched to death. The research has been done already and found to lead nowhere.

[Minn]

Just because an investment isn’t attractive, is that reason for not doing research?

If little things like keeping your kids fed and a roof over their heads is important to you, it's all the reason in the world.

[The Louiswu]

"Just because an investment isn’t attractive, is that reason for not doing research?"

No one is stopping you from doing the research Shell does not want to do..get up off your computer chair and go do some research, spend a few (millions? billions?) and get back to us when you think it will make monetary sense.

Invest your time, your money first, not mine...if you can make it profitable, then I will see to it you keep all those profits for yourself...(Congress will have other ideas to that end, I assure you.)

[monocle]

If you question why others are doing costly research, I ask why don’t you commit some money to do such research. What you suggest is nothing but a variant of “not in my backyard”.