Jerry,
While I don’t disagree with you - you need to realize that this was a quick sketching competition for the purposes of fun - not solving the transportation industrys energy crisis.
You can go into an entire rant on the politics of design but thats not what this is about. A professional designer took a few minutes out of their time to review some different sketches and pick which ones he liked the best. There wasn’t a panel of officials, a $1 million dollar prize, and weeks of preparation that would be needed for ANY project with substance. If you really were capable of creating an environmentally responsible design that wasn’t anything more then putting some callouts that said “hybrid magic fuel cell that runs on salt water” in an hour you’d deserve a nobel prize.
It’s very easy to get pissed at the motivation and criteria in any form of competition, especially one you put work into. But in the end you’re just wasting energy to accomplish nothing - you either stay bitter or you pick up your markers, smile, and move on to the next competition.