@Gizz-
I mostly agree with your assessment of where the technologies you listed are deficient.
But, really, nuclear power on a large scale, designed with safety first, is a fairly clean, safe, and modern way of generating electricity. It's really a shame that the early horrendous accidents, along with the high cost of building nuclear plants, has stagnated the development of this source of electricity.
A plentiful, clean source of electricity could do wonders for clearing up pollution and raising sustainability. Nuclear is the closest thing we've got.
Overall, we're still dependent on middle east oil, which is slowly depleting fast. Unless the energy crisis is resolve, we could endup, more likely, the MADMAX era. Part 1: Fighting for a drop of fuel. Part 2: Fighting for water. Part 3: Fighting just to survive.
Well, there's no doubt we're too dependent on fossil fuels. But, I just don't see it all ending in MadMax style. It's not like one day the wells stop, and that's it. They slow over time, and people will struggle to get the deeper and harder to obtain oils. They will struggle to refine worse grades of oil. And you know what? That'll gradually raise the price of oil. We're not heading for a wall of "running out" of crude. We're heading for a years long, if not decades long price ramp-up as oil gets harder and harder to obtain.
Eventually the price will exceed the cost of other options, and as that happens, systems will be changed over to save costs. Honestly, the high gas prices the US is experiencing right now is probably a good thing, in that the prices are moving more toward the reality of the situation. (The truth of it is, that the US prices are now more in line with world prices...)
