Adam, by capital I mean anything that took a fixed amount of energy to create, therefore can be represented in an account, and a mark-up put on it, prior to passing it on.
A diamond, a barrel of oil, a piece of coal, a ball bearing, a stone, a dollar, a bitcoin, a kilowatt-hour of electricity, are all examples.
Primary energy is not discretised/packetised, can't be, probably shouldn't be attempted, otherwise we start to blur the lines between what is old, already given to our planet, and what is new, that we can use without carrying on robbing our planet.
The instant sunlight it is converted to any kind of stored form, it becomes secondary, then it is no longer free, it becomes capable of being sold at profit, which obviously just perpetuates the madness.
Bitcoin might be key, because it represents not only capital, by the fixed amount of energy it took to make it, but also an identifiable component of live solar energy supply, which it contributed towards "Pushing up", thus punching a hole in the old grand-capital, the zero-sum box that we still use erroneously to reference world money supply.
It turns out we can put an energy "Flow" standard on each token of Bitcoin much like we once put a gold standard on conventional money.
So in the future we could be exchanging / assigning continuous flows directly interchangeable with energy flows when Bitcoin changes hands.
In effect, Bitcoin and maybe some other proof-of-work tokens, could become a reference, a kind of authority which could be used as a source of generating the other kinds of money which flows freely, through the system of humanity which can be engineered, using standard engineering techniques, all powered at source from the sun.
Market values become similar to pressures, which can be regulated by adjusting flow rate, and adding/removing connections anywhere in the network.
That might sound crazy, but anything different from the profit driven system has to sound crazy, just because it is totally different, almost the opposite of how things work at profit.
Instead of regulating scarcity, we regulate pressure, the same thing as needed in a piped irrigation system.
Imagine trying to regulate how much water the plants at the furthest reaches of an irrigation system might receive, by spooning the water at the input in, teaspoon by teaspoon, and we start to see the similarity with how the vast majority of humanity gets less than needed.
In effect, the more solar power capacity we add, which is not effectively utilised, results in a pressure/wealth build-up at the top of the system. At some point, it has to be let out, after that, our attention moves from capital, to the actual effects of real-time wealth generation, which can be monitored similarly to power, by a multiplication of flow rate x market value.
