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by birdsbirdsbirds 2018 days ago
>Some of scarce will become not so scarce as their availability limited by energy.

Then those resources will cost the same in units of energy

>Other will increase in price as they're limited by other factors.

So why use energy to store value and not those resources? Of course I am free to choose gold on a personal level, but shouldn't it be the default strategy of every investor to not store value in energy?

Going back to your first comment:

>Everything we produce can be measured in / has energy cost. So maybe some kind of energy units should be the universal currency.

I can imagine that energy can be used as the unit for value transactions. For value storage however, it's the other way round: I think value has to be stored in assets that don't depend on energy.