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It still won't do jack to curb our foreign oil dependence.

Our transportation infrastructure is still virtually 100% based on (foreign) oil importation. We could have fusion come online tomorrow, or open 1,000 new fission reactors. It'd mean we'd have tons of cheap, easily-available electricity for home/office/public use, but it be virtually useless to running our cars, buses, trains, aircraft, boats, etc.

We need huge, sweeping advances in electrical storage (battery) technology if an electric-based transportation system is ever going to be viable. MUCH better than we currently have. Somehow the thought of substituting several thousands of pounds of toxic batteries for several hundreds of pounds of fossil fuel emissions over the life of every vehicle on the roads doesn't strike me as so great a swap. Step in the right direction perhaps, but until the battery technology is several orders of magnitude better than it is today, ultimately it's not a long-term solution.

Would you get on an electric airplane? I sure as hell wouldn't. Not for a long time.

These are the sorts of problems that confront us - technological AND perceptual. Yes, they can both be solved, but it won't be overnight and fusion technology, while definitely worth pursuing is not a "silver bullet" for all of our energy consumption problems.