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Indeed. Energy is like currency. It has to be under the control of a political authority with complete control over it. At the moment that structure is still th
by neilwilson 7y ago
Indeed. Energy is like currency. It has to be under the control of a political authority with complete control over it. At the moment that structure is still the nation state.
Once you step outside the nation state you need sufficient geopolitical diversity of supply between nations that you can abandon one if necessary.
As ever you need highly cohesive units, loosely coupled if you want them to be responsive to change.
- roenxi 7y ago> Energy ... has to be under the control of a political authority with complete control over it. Energy has been harvested by plants for millions of years before nation states were a thing. It is nothing like currency, which requires advanced political and technological development to exist as we have it today as a form of electronic credit. The only link at all is we can agree that both energy and currency have measurable value. The only reason political authorities get involved in energy is to secure it for their own people, or for Safety/Environmental reasons. How energy gets used is a somewhat political question - but only in the sense that literally everything humans do is a somewhat political question. I could harvest and use energy for myself with very little state involvement, for example.