Good that you knew about it all that time ago Dave. I only became interested when it became apparent actual commercial reversible fuel cell based UPS are now for sale, see Plug Power, and alibaba. My understanding is it has only been around commercially since about 2018. I don't see the Money-Fuel Tree as mine, it is only something I uncovered, following the Bitcoin Kardashev Hinge story. The reason I've written about it explicitly as a standalone "Seed" system is that we are inundated by misinformation that alleges solar power implementation is unfeasible, unprofitable, whatever, when actually it is very simple, if we can see a way to convert the sunlight directly to money, a minimal sized installation quickly becomes able to maintain and scale itself entirely from the solar energy, with no further requirement for energy or investment from Earth resources, other than materials, which are not exotic.
The usual argument is that solar will cost a fortune, when actually it won't, it makes returns far quicker than the conventionally financed establishment, and even all capital driven Bitcoiners wish us to know, because the outcome, infinite free money and fuel, devalues all capital, including the capital in Bitcoin, to zero.
Something interesting to note about Bitcoin, which so far confirms the Kardashev hinge hypothesis, is that gold, the former king of capital, and the former reference of money, when we compare its value with Bitcoin, over the history of Bitcoin, gold follows something that looks like an elliptical trajectory, like the arc of a stone, thrown for a distance, It is now dropping rapidly compared with Bitcoin, which means Bitcoin is something more than capital, it is actually an as yet indeterminate measure of implemented solar power, but projecting forward to the end of Bitcoin, when the last token is minted, we will be completely solar powered as a result of it, and at that point each Bitcoin will represent around 1MW of solar power.
This should not be confused with MMT. That might have applied before Bitcoin, but since Bitcoin started, the Kardashev Hinge effect is something physically provable, much more significant than MMT. What we are seeing is money moving to align with the energy received from the sun. If things continue to follow this path of progression, there will come a time when we will find it beneficial to put Joules of solar energy per token on all forms of money in markets.
