I like this concept. An excess of energy causing problems. It was fun to work with when I wrote my sequel because you can think of all the possibilities of excess energy and both its application and storage. I particularly liked the idea of opposite polarity lighting to waste energy. My only quip would be that you didn’t leave any sort of hint as to the problem. It’s left to the reader/sequel writer to make something up, mostly out of the blue. If you had stated an effect of the problem, it’d rock.
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