Somebody actually did the math instead of doing the knee-jerk ‘green thing’. Shocking.
Chesterton's fence is still a valid argument. Things are generally the way they because that is the best way to do them.
It does no harm to look into new ways of doing things but don't announce that you are going to do something before you do your research.
“Somebody actually did the math instead of doing the knee-jerk ‘green thing’. Shocking.”
They should publicize their calculations as that may give other companies some backbone.