Editing Technocracy movement (section)

==== The energy certificate and the energy distribution card ====
Replacing the price system meant figuring out a new means of measuring distribution that also needed to be based on science. This lead to the technocrats concluding that measurements by units of energy was the most logical thing to do, although Thorstein Veblen's "The Engineers and the Price System" did not talk about price by energy, nor did William Henry Smyth's technocracy social universals.

Technocrats rationalized that the flow of energy can be what determines a price by energy. With the usage of all forms of energy units, especially having emphasis on the [[erg]] and [[Joule|joules]]. They came up with "energy certificates," which would have a table with the information of a citizen's identification, age, sex, occupation/location, energy allotment, purchases made, the issued date and expiration date of the certificates, formatted in a [[Dewey Decimal Classification|Dewey Decimal System]]. Each individual would be issued a booklet of the certificates.  This was sometimes called an "energy distribution card."<ref name=":0" />
[[File:Energy Certificate.png|frame|the energy certificate[[File:Technocracy Technate ID Card.jpg|336x336px]]the energy distribution card]]

Technocrats held that the differences between energy accounting and monetary systems are:
* equal allotments of energy
** it was suggested that citizens under the workforce age (25) would still have an allowance of energy totally independent from parents or guardians
** retired citizens(45) would still get their allotments
** citizens out of work would still receive their allotments<ref name="loeb" />
* citizens cannot trade or give away certificates. They can only spend energy at verified vendors
* once a purchase is made at a vendor, the energy used is made void; the vendor does not gain the used energy. Therefore there is no circulation of energy or hoarding of energy
* the certificates have an expiration date. Any energy not used will become void, and on a given date the citizen will receive their new allotment of energy. Once again no citizen can hoard energy
* certificates are directly tied to an individual's ID. Therefore it cannot be stolen or used by someone else<ref name=":0" />