Maybe it isn’t your site, but as your repetition of the suggestion to multiple people makes you appear to be advertizing, you’ll just have to accept ownership of that notion here.

You call me pathetic and clueless? Upon what grounds?

Or were you lashing out upon no grounds whatsoever because I debunked your bullshi+ and pointed out how you dropped the ball?

The question is whether fiat currency.

Your site assumes ‘yes.’

Not. Good. Enough.

I’ve got a few friends here and there who tell me things

The culture of the Chinese is very strong, and it’s showing, and working. China led civilization for thousands of years. The last 150 years are somewhat of an anomaly in history. And the endgame is still wide open. B.Rutan and Sir Branson and JPL are seeing to that.

Most chinese immigrants do it right; they keep their dick in their pants till they’re married, they learn some kind of useful skill, often high-end skills like surgery or electrical design, they work and save and educate their kids. It’s too bad they trashed their demographics, but that is easily dealt with and has lots of side-benefits; males leave and interbreed.

If only their home country could grow out of it’s totalitarianism the same way it grew out of the communism…I look forward to the day Hong Kong fulfills its destiny as cuckoo egg.

The particular unit is approximately arbitrary, as is the particular form anyone decides to ‘save’ with. KWhrs are something almost everyone is familiar with, from their electric bill. And all energy storage can be compared to any other with a simple calculation that most people can do.

Most of what we do as life-forms is store energy, and our civilization has massive energy-storage capacity. Everything from bombs to water towers qualify, not even talking about the high tech stuff. Indeed, that massive amount of on-hand available energy would, under an energy-standard, become our financial system’s ‘reserve currency,’ which would make accounting for our actual needs as life forms far easier, and all of our markets far stabler…and prices more accurate, and therefore useful.

That ease of accounting could easily be a primary major advantage, as good as getting the grids linked.

The stability of money would be the icing, but people are famous for doing the right thing for the wrong reason.

The major source of instability in the price (or more relevantly, the value) of electricity is the daily cycle of demand peaks and troughs.

If we built 1300 miles of electrical grid, we could pass those cycles all the way around the world, almost immediately balancing them out.

We do the same thing to some degree now with markets and overflow plants. If we accounted in electricity, the balancing would be automatic and immediate, stabilizing the price / demand with not particular effort on anyone’s part.

Once connected those overflow plants could be recycled, or turned on to make money 24/7. Hence the option for a 4-fold increase in total production.

There would be an early incentive to inflate electrical power and generate electricity…which you can read as “human power” because it gets used for our needs and desires.

Because the increase in the money supply would always equal the increase in our ability to do things, there would rarely be any general price inflation.

Put another way, an energy standard indication of inflation would in fact tell us how much energy to make or use…maybe that’s what it’s for.