Abdullah Alshehri
Founder
Mutoon Technology
Abdullah is a systems thinker with a B.Sc. in Applied Electrical Engineering (KFUPM) and an M.Sc. in Finance (King Saud University). His work applies data science to market challenges. Independent studies in architecture and permaculture revealed the energy demands of built environments and sustainable systems. Integrating engineering, finance, and ecology, he developed the energy currency framework; proposing energy as the foundation of sustainable economies.
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April
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This work examines a framework proposing energy, specifically the "Priced Watt," as a universal single unit of measure for pricing all goods and services globally. The research addresses the fundamental economic challenge of establishing standardized production cost calculations using a single universal measure across all products and services worldwide.
The research methodology explored time as a potential universal measure using bread production as a framework. However, this revealed limitations: parallel processes cannot be linearly aggregated, different agents work simultaneously, and derivative costs create complex interdependencies. These insights led to reconceptualizing the problem through energy expenditure, recognizing that all production requires energy input regardless of the specific agent or process.
Analysis of global data from 1971-2022 demonstrates that while GDP exhibits inflationary characteristics, energy production per capita provides a more accurate measure of real economic prosperity. Energy consumption per person correlates more directly with genuine productive capacity and living standards than monetary measures subject to currency fluctuations and inflation.
This energy-based pricing system modifies economic incentives by prioritizing efficiency as the primary competitive advantage. The system eliminates long-term profits except during temporary "growth windows" created by efficiency improvements. Technology inventors receive "discovery value" while early adopting producers benefit from growth windows by implementing new efficiencies before competitors, until widespread adoption equalizes performance and creates price deflation.
The framework offers several potential benefits: global price standardization, reduced currency arbitrage, economic equality through elimination of monetary manipulation advantages, decreased geopolitical conflicts through resource-based competition, and environmental sustainability through efficiency prioritization over growth. Implementation requires global electrical infrastructure connectivity, feasible through landmass interconnections demonstrated by Fuller's map projections.
Artificial Intelligence serves dual roles: while AI systems require substantial computational energy, they simultaneously enable the precise energy accounting, real-time pricing calculations, and supply chain optimizations necessary for implementing a global energy-based currency system.
Saudi Arabia, strategically positioned between continents with abundant energy resources, possesses unique advantages in leading this economic transformation. The kingdom's capacity to transmit electricity directly to distant markets such as China demonstrates greater efficiency and speed compared to transporting energy stored in ship tanks across oceans, illustrating the practical advantages of electrical energy distribution over traditional fossil fuel logistics. This positions Saudi Arabia as a potential central hub for transaction processing and energy settlement in a global "Priced Watt" economy.
The "Priced Watt" framework represents an energy-based transaction system that is non-inflationary, decentralized, inherently valuable, finite, and enables rapid transmission. This approach may provide a pathway toward global economic stability, efficiency, and sustainability for future energy systems. By establishing energy as a universal currency, this framework could enable equitable access to economic participation for all nations and communities, regardless of their traditional monetary systems, supporting the vision of energy prosperity for all.
The research methodology explored time as a potential universal measure using bread production as a framework. However, this revealed limitations: parallel processes cannot be linearly aggregated, different agents work simultaneously, and derivative costs create complex interdependencies. These insights led to reconceptualizing the problem through energy expenditure, recognizing that all production requires energy input regardless of the specific agent or process.
Analysis of global data from 1971-2022 demonstrates that while GDP exhibits inflationary characteristics, energy production per capita provides a more accurate measure of real economic prosperity. Energy consumption per person correlates more directly with genuine productive capacity and living standards than monetary measures subject to currency fluctuations and inflation.
This energy-based pricing system modifies economic incentives by prioritizing efficiency as the primary competitive advantage. The system eliminates long-term profits except during temporary "growth windows" created by efficiency improvements. Technology inventors receive "discovery value" while early adopting producers benefit from growth windows by implementing new efficiencies before competitors, until widespread adoption equalizes performance and creates price deflation.
The framework offers several potential benefits: global price standardization, reduced currency arbitrage, economic equality through elimination of monetary manipulation advantages, decreased geopolitical conflicts through resource-based competition, and environmental sustainability through efficiency prioritization over growth. Implementation requires global electrical infrastructure connectivity, feasible through landmass interconnections demonstrated by Fuller's map projections.
Artificial Intelligence serves dual roles: while AI systems require substantial computational energy, they simultaneously enable the precise energy accounting, real-time pricing calculations, and supply chain optimizations necessary for implementing a global energy-based currency system.
Saudi Arabia, strategically positioned between continents with abundant energy resources, possesses unique advantages in leading this economic transformation. The kingdom's capacity to transmit electricity directly to distant markets such as China demonstrates greater efficiency and speed compared to transporting energy stored in ship tanks across oceans, illustrating the practical advantages of electrical energy distribution over traditional fossil fuel logistics. This positions Saudi Arabia as a potential central hub for transaction processing and energy settlement in a global "Priced Watt" economy.
The "Priced Watt" framework represents an energy-based transaction system that is non-inflationary, decentralized, inherently valuable, finite, and enables rapid transmission. This approach may provide a pathway toward global economic stability, efficiency, and sustainability for future energy systems. By establishing energy as a universal currency, this framework could enable equitable access to economic participation for all nations and communities, regardless of their traditional monetary systems, supporting the vision of energy prosperity for all.
