Comment Not For Me (Score 1) 194
You have to start somewhere. If we required the full infrastructure to be in place first then we would never advance at all.
This may or may not end up working in the long term, but could theoretically have the advantages of gas (i.e. pour some liquid into your car every few miles) and the advantages of electric vehicles (efficiencies of scale by generating large amounts of power instead of all the cars generating small amounts inefficiently).