Bioregional Circular Energy Currencies
Discussion
As proposed by Mark Whitaker:
"Maybe future complimentary currencies should be pegged to a basket of localized useful "energy currencies" exclusively useful for a region's circular economy. This gives it real store of value, in actual commodities, useful in a region, and as a check and balance or hedge against currency managers pushing out more paper-digital tokens in such currencies (thus blocking use value inflation of currency). Instead of these 'energy currencies' suggested here, https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Energy_currency
I would suggest a regional financial currency, based on a basket of more "circular energy currencies", to coin a phrase, in order to facilitate a circular economy, like:
- ammonia (a cheaply-created form of hydrogen economy easier infrastructurally to manage, and recycled FROM animal waste from across many different industrial categories, and easy to put into a common feedstock of use in many other categories of social use),
- methane (green-recycled/derived, from animal sources or from biomass and organic garbage), etc.
- biodiesel, etc.
--all of this would be useful for catalyzing more links regionally for a circular economy and finding profitable waste uses for secondary uses as well as a common feedstock. Pricing would innately balance out based on the supply curve (i.e., more ammonia, methane or biodiesel would be desired, so the price in the regional energy currency would go up, and encourage more production of them, and when "too much" of these energy currencies exist, the price of them would go down, and less production would be required, and yet more utilization of them would happen (as they would be cheaper), and then the social inflation/deflation cycle would be good for us--more ecological and homeostatically good--instead of destabilizing!"