Would energy storage not be a good use of that money? Society is facing a large problem: climate change. One way to reduce the impact of climate change is to use renewable energy like solar and wind. Solar and wind have a big problem; they can't be turned on and off. That means to displace fossil fuels, we need to store energy when it's sunny and windy, and release that energy when it's not. Hence, things like compressed air energy storage. This is the kind of technology that can prevent entire cities from disappearing over the next 100 years. Seems pretty valuable to me.
Small nitpick. Wind can be turned off. The turbines can be equipped with brakes to stop power generation in case of oversupply, in addition to other uses.
