Unless you"re suggesting that we go to a world where electricity is only available erratically and unpredictably, and that we use it only when it's actually there, the comparison makes no sense. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
What part of 'redeemable in payment for value supplied' is so difficult to understand? "Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky