>>16997465
Maybe you need to find an area of chemical engineering that is interesting?
Like, I have no interest whatsoever in what most people consider to be computer science, but there are some very fascinating things about it.

Chemical engineering sounds like it'd be super fun if rather than getting into high tech stuff, you went for low tech brute force stuff. I wonder how efficient it would be to try do mining just by blasting everything with Chlorine Trifluoride?

>>16997484
Yeah, thankfully there's a lot of variety within the field, so maybe there's hope I'll be content with my career. If I had to choose this second I'd do green energy, but it's less of an interest and more out of a feeling of duty to help fix the planet, so I'm afraid I might end up unhappy.

>>16997516
Well, one specific thing in that field which is literally cool is the possibility that if you used photon upconversion to turn black body radiation into photovoltaic-usable light, then you made loads of very thin photovoltaic cells like that and layered them so they'd absorb each other's black body radiation, then you'd have a photovoltaic block which turns heat into electricity.

>>16997557
Is it viable? Sounds like a neat application with low efficiency

>>16997581
/sci/ hasn't told me otherwise.
And the efficiency increases with how thin you can get the photovoltaic layers.
If you can get a thousand to a metre, then you've got a thousand square metres of heat to electricity conversion in a cubic metre, which is quite substantial.

>>16997618
Well, thank you for showing me a topic that seems cool, generating some interest in this major would be a good first step