the joules project

industrial chemical commercial mining agricultural transportation. etc.... making products, brining them to market making houses having a police man DO a specific task

a huge database of the specific estimates of the amount of energy used for a generic process and for specific instances ( companies) own report on their own energy inputs into the outputted finished products.

the concept might be thought 'irrelevant' to many people because the money price for goods and services provides a distilled statistic providing the information above.

but this is NOT the case. money is a very imperfect measure of the actual energy used to make something happen.

frequently the biggest problem with money is simply the many people that need to be bribed or 'paid off' through one purposeless tax or another to make something happen .

now , im not saying the joules project would be a perfect description of the world. there are of course many intangibles that are worth the price we pay for them that cannot be counted in joules, because they represent behavioral stop- gaps of societal game theory. for example the monetary cost of 'law and order' allows for many other things to happen in society, and thus a not so easy or meaningful energy estimate is not a sign that these efforts are not worth the costs.

the goal of the project would be to find energetic arbitrage by way of subsittution of behaviors from high energy to low energy given a same or acceptably similar outcome.

of course, there might even be some bonus results where extremely wasteful energetic projects can be identified and eliminated by substituting something else, or simply shutting it down.