Frederick Bott
2 min readDec 3, 2021

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I think it helps to think about the fact we have standard technology (See Plug Power Co. for example), of PEM hydrogen fuel cells, which can continuously convert solar electrical power to clean hydrogen which is exchangeable for fossil fuels, with no pollution generated by either its production or consumption.

When a solar farm backed up by that kind of fuel cell techology (It acts like a battery if the hydrogen is just vented into a tank, (the process is reversible, creating electricity output from the fuel cell at night time for exapmple), is constant, even at night, and is ideal for supplying datacenters, which in turn can be generating crypto-currency tokens.

So we see a trade-off there between crypto-currency token production, and hydrogen fuel production.

The energy from solar produces both crypto-currency tokens per Joules received, and hydrogen fuel per Joules received, more of one means less of the other, for a given level of Joules received, they either produce tokens, or hydrogen fuel.

Lingering on that concept, we soon realise what we are seeing is interchangeable money-as-sunlight, and fuel-as-sunlight.

With a reasonable source of either or both, anything is possible.

This is both money and fuel, two of the essential elements of human business, being created from the energy of the sun. The same money and energy quickly makes the energy and money that might have been spent, in creating the original plant become insignificant.

A fixed sum of capital invested in this kind of plant produces infinite returns, and those returns can be used to scale the first plant, as well as seed many others.

So we are seeing something like human made trees, that function by absorbing the energy of sunlight, supplying everything needed by humanity, similarly to the trees of nature absorb sunlight and supply everything needed by all of life.

Money, and even fuel, really does grow on trees, human created trees.

When that is fully accepted, we will see a new solar energy standard is needed for money, and it is not related to any unit of capital, but a unit of energy flowing from, and being received from the sun.

Also, since it is from an infinite source, it can, and must be given away for free, to reflect that the energy of the sun is received for free.

Hopefully you can see that significantly changes everything, all estimates not considering this are invalid.

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Frederick Bott
Frederick Bott

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