Besides oil and gas not a hell of a lot came out of the fortunes put into equally green energy schemes of the energy crisis.
Shale oil anyone?
Coal bed methane?
Syngas? Synthetic oil?
Just to name two that had billions (in today’s worthless dollars) poured into them.
How many of these green ventures and tech headliners will ever earn a fraction of their speculative market cap? I know one guy who is now a guest of the federal prison system invited by the SEC who once said that a stock company is the closest thing you can ever have to a printing press for money in the basement.
I worked for a company that poured untold amounts of investor money into all of those. The only time synthetic oil worked was in Nazi Germany and South Africa because of their vast deposits of coal. But almost none of what you listed (and I could add a lot to that list panned out). Instead, we now have the GD goobermint full of really stupid people cramming "climate change" down our throats and leading them to ban NATURAL GAS. I got into the power industry when we were cleaning up real pollutants, sulphur oxides, nitrogen oxides, and particulates. We finished that so now they chase fairy tale "pollutants" like inert CO2.
Our society worked really well up until 30 years ago. Now the nonstop assault on so many fronts simultaneously makes it almost impossible to fight back. The future is really bleak on so many fronts (not the least of which is our abysmal ability to turn out students who can read, write, do math, and think critically).