That sounds so familiar. I swear I once read the same comment about renewable energy generation. :)

They performance potential was always there for solar and wind energy. It was a known quantity that was an engineering inevitability.

The industrial scale-up just happened quickly since the same tech could be leveraged from chip manufacturing for solar and composite construction from airplanes for wind turbines.

There's no similar performance potential for wind-powered vessels over combustion-powered vessels that can be "scaled-up" and, if need be, we can make green fuel from raw materials and still economically out-perform wind vessels.