I totally agree on the pride thing... I have a small business myself and I work over 60 hours a week, but that's of my own choice, and how I like it. I'm just a project driven person - even when I don't work 50+ hours a week, I find projects to work on to keep me from getting bored. But while I understand that networking is good for my business, I do very little of it... I just can't stand most "startup culture" people. Nearly all of my clients are regular small business people, and while I'm a lot younger than them - I enjoy their company a hell of a lot more than those who have pipe dreams of slapping together some startup, taking a pile of money to develop some new app or website, then selling to Google or whoever. I'm much more in tune with the people who have an idea, and love it so much that they make a living out of it... and (like the Snapchat people - who I have a great deal of respect for because of this) wouldn't sell it to anyone, even for a billion dollars.

These people are in la la land if they think they can build a giant communications network that the NSA wont be able to crack into.

As the other responder said, the danger of fires with batteries is far less than that with fossil fuels, but even more - there is tech a few years off that will make them even safer. Just the other day someone developed a form of lithium ion battery that is significantly less prone to fire, which is amazing given how much energy is stored in those things. It's nearly impossible to design something that holds such an enormous amount of energy without it being dangerous if damaged and accidentally discharged.