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.
I would think it may be viable on a small individual basis, but anyway, what do we do, just leave it to the future generations to fix? Seems like we should be doing our part.