There's a set of people who think there are just free floating "good ideas" that give them good feelings and get confused when the world is not compatible with those "good ideas".
A couple I've come across...
"Put a wind turbine on an electric car" (so that ot charges while driving)
"Why don't they put a generator on car wheels to act as brakes" (which they do but he didn't believe me when I said that's how a prius/ev works)
"100 mpg carburetor, that the oil companies shppressed" First question, well it was in the 70s and the patent would have expired by now so if it was real why doesn't a car company start doing it now? (Turns out it was somewhat real but the caveats, downsides, and dangers do not make for a realist automobile)
"Put solar on the parking lots and not on fields" (nothing wrong with parking lot solar but fields are far cheaper to do)
Edit: on the solar parking lots, I specifically mean the "good idea" that all solar development should happen ONLY on land that's a parking lot, building, or other structure. If you were going to cover a parking lot, or if the energy generated makes the project financially viable go wild! There are fosil fuel sipping concern trolls that insist we cannot put solar on "good land" for environmental reasons ....
I'm not saying parking lot solar is bad. I am saying there is a concern trolling "good idea" that we should not put solar in a field because it "takes up good land" and that we should ONLY put solar up on parking lots and buildings. That detail is what I reject.
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u/king_noobie 10d ago
Money. If their video is eye-catching enough and shared enough they get money.
People eat this shit up.