As the thermometer hovers in the nineties (over 30 degrees Celsius), the power company issues warnings about peak usage, industrial users complain about cutoffs, and the public continues to protest about "building a power plant in our back yard." Anxious people and sticky problems ... but experts calmly point out: "They had a solution way back in the late nineteenth century."
溫度表老是停留在卅幾度、台電頻頻放出用電尖峰的警報、受到限電的工商業界直呼吃不消、老百姓又不要「電廠設在我家後院」… …，當人人心急如焚，卻又似乎束手無策；學者專家卻泰然自若地說：早在十九世紀末期，就有避免這種窘況的方法。