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This is exactly what I'm talking about. You jump immediately to an assumption that disregards my premise. I'm aware the threat is small compared to the threat from climate change largely induced by C02 emissions, but we're just getting rolling.
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/business/2023/09/10/chatgpt-was-built-in-iowa-using-artificial-intelligence-microsoft-west-des-moines/70819093007/
tell me this doesn't represent a problem long term. we're only going to create more and more waste heat.
and one of the oft-cited solutions to keep people cooler, more efficiently, is to dump that heat into the ground. when thousands were doing it around the world, meh. when billions are doing it constantly in order to stave off cooking from a climate gone mad.... it'll add up.
I'm not suggesting we go full luddite but I don't think people are giving these subjects their due.
But heat radiates out to space it doesn't accumulate in the atmosphere like CO2 does. Plus if we switch to a fully renewable grid you aren't introducing any new heat to the system just moving it around.
Are we opposed to trying the satellite/sphere thing that blocks out the sun for a bit to cool off the planet? I'm not sure I'm really against it, though pereputal pollution is still not optimal. Plus if you start that project you have the basis for the next project... The Dyson ring/sphere