From Smart Power to Smart Heat

Just read a very interesting article about the next conundrum for the Alternative Energy community called Smart Heat. It is one thing looking for smart ways to power our civilisation but we haven't looked yet properly at the effects the amount of heat being emitted from the various methods of energy production will have on our climate. The article entitled "Power Paradox:Clean might not be Green forever" published recently in New Scientist proposes the argument that even Green Energy can effect a change in climate, if as a civilisation we continue to increase power production to feed our ever more demanding need for electricity. One example is that of Solar Panels, that produce a small amount of excess heat that is burned off into the atmosphere. Considering the size of some of the Solar Power fields already in place in the world that could pose a problem in years to come. However, there are likely already technologies being investigated to compensate for this and it's hardly, in my humble opinion, an argument against the use of sustainable energy, in relation to the more compelling and ravenous effects the burning of fossil fuels has on our climate.