Well that's the beauty of it, electric power is a well known and standard energy generation/storage/transmission technology. It can come from many sources, including ones that haven't been invented yet. A gallon of gasoline is a marvelous thing, but to convert, let's say mechanical energy, to gasoline is not exactly straight forward. Converting mechanical energy to electricity is pretty simple.
100 years ago if you had a gasoline powered vehicle you didn't have a gas station every 100 yards in the major cities. It took a while to build the distribution infrastructure, we're actually ahead of that point with electricity, as stated above.
No argument about the "limitations of some evolving technologies", it's just that some people can't really comprehend the "evolving" part of that sentence - they think that what they see now is all they'll ever see. Of course if it was up to their imagination and ambition, that would be true. And they also refuse to see the "limitations of some *existing* technologies", 'cause that means they might have to change! Well the change is going to happen whether we like it or not, we can develop the solutions and sell them to others, or we can drag our feet.. and buy them from the Chinese. Our choice. In a country that has always thrived on building the next best thing, I don't see the issue. And we don't just build things, we build needs. The Internet and cell phones weren't built because we "needed" them, but the world - and our economy - wouldn't be the same without them, because now we "need" them. Just got to have a little foresight and ambition...
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