A Map Projection

Energy Currency Settlement

I was exploring a question about adopting energy as a currency:
How can we interconnect the entire world with electricity networks for currency settlement?

Electricity is currently the most efficient way to transfer energy, it moves at the speed of light, making it an ideal medium for settling transactions in an energy-based currency system. But this raises a practical question: How can such a global settlement network be built; physically?

One major challenge is geographical: Earth’s vast oceans make it seem difficult to connect continents with electrical infrastructure. Or... is it really that hard?

As Johny Harris says, “all maps are wrong”, but there is one map projection that offers a more accurate view of land proportions on a 2D surface: the Dymaxion Map, developed by Buckminster Fuller. Interestingly, Fuller used this map to demonstrate the feasibility of a global energy grid!

I came across the Dymaxion Map while reading an article titled “Thinking Globally, Acting Locally – And Vice Versa” by Greg Watson.

Here is the map:

The map clearly reveals how landmasses are more interconnected than we typically assume, something that also helps explain ancient human migration routes.

What are your thoughts?

Energy is the currency—no doubt about it.
To explore this idea further, check out my previous article: