Oh don't get me wrong. I think that global warming activists have lost, and that the end goal for the planet is set.

I'm not campaigning, I'm cooking near the fire.

I make assumptions about the world, and in the end I realized the best way for me to hold myself honest, is to make a prediction and then see how it pans out.

This is one of the predictions I am confident enough about that I can moan about it on HN.

I hope I am wrong, that either some technique is actually found where pumping MORE heat into a heat engine makes it cooler, or people ditch the idea.

But this is not about conservation or global warming campaigning. I think the ship has sailed on that one.

This is just a prediction about a new product.

> that either some technique is actually found where pumping MORE heat into a heat engine makes it cooler, or people ditch the idea

It's not the waste heat that's killing us. Sure, given enough energy usage, just the generated heat would become a problem for the planet, but we're far from there. Like hundreds of years far, at minimum. Right now we're fighting with the heat insulation we inadvertently wrapped ourselves in.

Hey thats a nice distinction, thanks. you arr correct.

This is key. It's not just about global warming, it's about how we solve it.

Some would prefer we get away from carbon-based energy entirely. Global warming is one way to argue for that.

If we find a way to remove carbon from the atmosphere, we can continue to use carbon-based energy and that upsets some people.

Or maybe people are just very skeptical of a claim made by a company ran by people trying to make lots of money off of this. Just as they should be skeptical of claims made by oil and coal companies that are making alot of money off the current energy system.