Energy of the Future?

[seireikhaan]

An interesting article here, where inventer Ray Kurzweil claims that solar power will have both the financial and technological capability to generate 100% of our energy. Further, that solar power will be stored in the form of hydrogen/hydrogen based fuel cells, which can be used with vehicles.

So if this is true, would this mean that gasoline itself could be obsoleted by the vastness of human ingenuity? Could humans actually outstrip the very resources given to us by our planet? Can we transcend finite resources, to the point where technology can completely and totally propel nations forward, leaving the shackles posed by oil dependency? Can countries like the U.S.(with time, of course) actually become completely independent of oil, and actually be completely self dependent? I don't know about others, but frankly, this sort of thing excites me.