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Sources for Further Reading on the general topic:
- Local Energy - Local Currency - Local Power by Rob Hopkins
- Shann Turnbull in articles called Selecting a Community Currency
- Democratising the Wealth of Nations - from new money sources and profit motives
- David Boyle’s “The Money Changers”
- “Notes on the World Kilowatt Dollar” (note that a kilowatt is a unit of power not energy...)
- in the Schumacher Society by Robert Swann, called “The Place of a Local Currency in a World Economy”
- World Kilowatt Dollar
There has also been significant discussion in the literature about an "energy currency" based in the hydrogen economy but this is more focused around an economy run on hydrogen rather than say oil not as the the hydrogen being the means of exchange.
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