"[E]nergy companies [are feeling] the pinch from...weak demand..."

"[M]any EU countries...are facing an energy capacity crunch"

The above two quotes contradict each other. The first says there's weak demand, but the second says there's a "capacity crunch" (a shortage) which means there's too much demand. So which is it, a surplus of energy or a shortage of energy? It can't be both.

Resolving this contradiction will lead to the real problem. Then we can think about ways to solve it.

For years, Southern California Edison imported electricity from the Four Corners Power Plant, a coal-fired facility in northwestern New Mexico... [a few months after the carbon market took effect in 2013] the company sold its interest in the coal plant to an Arizona utility (APS, 2013)... this transaction will not reduce net greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere. The coal plant will keep emitting pollution just as before--only now it serves customers in Arizona, not California.

As other states follow California's lead, it will become more and more difficult for coal plants to stay in operation.

Cap bandwidth during (and only during) peak usage periods, similar to "unlimited nights and weekends" voice plans.

For the period 1863-1870 there were...143 [fatalities per million of population] on roads... for the period 1891-1900 the corresponding [figure was] 107... for the period 1931-1938...311... and for the year 1963... 278

So the roads are twice as dangerous now as they were before the introduction of the motor vehicle. And no doubt it would be even worse if children didn't find ways to entertain themselves indoors because the streets are not as safe as they used to be.

If we had continued to keep the automobile speed limit at 10 mph year-after-year because a few lazy old farts refused to give up their goddamned horses and buggies, we'd still be driving around today at 10 mph.

And there would be much less carnage on the streets.

I hope that in 10-20 years when driverless cars have proliferated, that the safety of our streets will be back up to where it was a century ago.