It's easy to see it's all things converted to heat which were not heat before, therefore it is mathematically negative energy, energy extracted from the planet. Use of it can only increase temperature, not decrease it, whereas if we transfer the energy requirement from it, to be supplied by energy say from solar hydrogen, then we can say everything done by that energy is things done by converting the energy of the sun which would have been heat if nothing had been done with it, to things other than heat, like nature does, therefore our activity in that mode would reduce heat, and logically regenerate / undesertify desert areas.
Its a no brainer if you just think of it like that, Will, its simple, fully mathematically verifiable, and it applies to all forms of energy use.