True, but it makes great finanacial sense for the companies being paid tax dollars to contsruct them.
Exactly right. The "Climate Government-Industrial-University Complex" is HUGE and lots of people are getting rich off the scam. University profs deliver the results their government benefactors want. They graduate lots of PhDs in "climate catastrophe" who get hired by corporations to make new technologies. There are millions of undergraduates getting degrees in "environmental science" whose sole objective in life is to stop conventional projects of all kinds. The climate "scientists" get to fly to exotic locations for two-week "Climate Catastrophe" conferences and UN meetings. Government subsidizes all sorts of new companies (e.g., Solyndra). Giant prototype projects are built. Tax laws are tilted to favor the green boondoggle (think EVs, solar, wind) so all taxpayers are on the hook to pay for this crap. People like Al Gore get fabulously wealthy off the scam.
I could go on and on about the millions of people worldwide milking this scam for all it is worth. And NONE of it produces anything of true economic value to any of us.
Sum it all up and it is probably an annual $100 billion "industry" built on nothing but fear and greed.