What a ridiculous statement. Yeah if it was possible to just jump to the best solution each time then we'd benefit massively, but that's not how any science wor

What a ridiculous statement. Yeah if it was possible to just jump to the best solution each time then we'd benefit massively, but that's not how any science works. The new awesome thing is always built on the back of what was done before. Electric cars have been around since the inception of the internal combustion engine but we didn't have electrical supplies with the energy density of gasoline to make electric cars possible until decades later, and modern life would've been (and remains, unfortunately) impossible without the energy density of fossil fuels. Hopefully someday we'll get past that, but when that happens, that doesn't then mean that fossil fuels were just a bad idea, they were the only stepping stone to what replaced them.