So the issue is the overhead infrastructure needed to do anything useful with the gas. The gas burns, so it is useful, and if they could've done anything profit

So the issue is the overhead infrastructure needed to do anything useful with the gas. The gas burns, so it is useful, and if they could've done anything profitable with it they wouldn't be burning it. It's not viable, so it is wasted. Well if you can use it on site to do something, like mine bitcoin, it can then be turned into something useful that doesn't require a ton of transport and storage infrastructure, so the state is trying to incentivize that so that they don't just keep burning it.