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Shell spends more on advertising how Green it is than it does funding renewable energy. Shell is interested in alternative energy developments for sure, the Oil is going to stop flowing sooner or later, or get too expensive to be used as such a major source of fuel and everyone who's in the game wants in on what's next, Shell, like every other big company with a long term plan is happy to sink a few Bil into research that may not show fruit for 20 or 30 years.

A shitload of development has happened in 'alternative energy' in the last few decades, just because it didn't make your fox news headlines don't think there isn't progress, it just takes a long, long time, hundreds of scientific advancements on the shoulders of hundreds more to get something capable of replacing hydrocarbons. Hell even hydrogen is often produced from Oil at the moment. But it will get there, sooner or later and I feel it's getting a lot closer of late, there are all sorts of forces and factors at play the the public doesn't really see. As always. Keep one thing in mind, Oil won't run out, it'll just get far too expansive.

We're not talking a small field here, we're talking geothermal to fusion to hydrogen to solar to wind to ethanol - hell, I've still only listed a small sample. Glatt is indeed correct, if all that money was fired into often starved programs the boost would be incredible.

To write off alternative energy sources research as a waste of time is frankly, naive, shortsighted and narrow minded.

Oh and tw, it's Saudi Arabia, no a on there end there.