Re:Climate Engineers Sucking Carbon Dioxide from the Atmosphere
by TeMPOraL on Thursday September 07, 2017 @08:33AM
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> 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.
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.