Insane response to non-problem creates real problem

Firms Face Fines For Ignoring Carbon [Swindle] Rules | eWEEK Europe UK

Halfway through the registration period only one tenth of the country's big energy users have registered for carbon permits.
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Although reducing energy use is presented as a way to prevent global warming, there is a much more immediate need for it, said [CRC consultant Andrew Jones of ITM Communications]: a lack of electricity generation capacity in the UK means power simply may not be available for servers. “Our rising demand at a time of falling generation capacity is the real problem,” he said. “From 2015 we will have more demand than capacity.”