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bybackslashdot ( 95548 ) writes:
We really should be using energy as in watt-hours as currency. Energy is work, and universally convertible to quality of life improvements. Plus, trading energy is easy. Say you want to buy a car or something .. instead of handing over a bag of cash you hand over a bunch of oil barrels. For most things it wont be inconvenient to make purchases if you carry around a gallon or two of gasoline in your backpack.
byPowercntrl ( 458442 ) writes:
We really should be using energy as in watt-hours as currency.
The cost of producing energy varies quite a bit. I can go to Harbor Freight right now and buy a solar panel that'll produce electricity for free, but somehow the power company still insists on billing me about $0.14 per kWh for the electricity I use at home.
Of course, the idealistic response would be that I should just get a whole bunch of those solar panel thingies, but immediate budgetary and practical constraints make that idea infeasible. Economics is hard, and apparently, so is getting away from paying for electricity.
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