Very interesting Roberto and indeed there was a confusion on your part The other debate you are referring to is how to avoid the exploitation of the commons by extractive market forces and how to avoid this capture, on which we have a dedicated section in our wiki, http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:P2P_Accounting and our proposals for copyfair licenses if you're not aware of them, I can send you extra material, and I have written an essay on 'from the communism of capital to capital for the commons' re your last questions, it is not at all clear to me how much of this net metering approach would be applicable to other fields (I have copied my colleagues to help think this through) Michel Two interesting directions are open and contributory value accounting practices On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 10:29 PM, Roberto Verzola <[email protected]> wrote:
Thus one can think of this phenomenon now as follows: those who have surplus are contributing to the common pool, using wires which are also held in common; the those who are short of electricity draw from this common pool but maybe in the future they will have some surplus to give to the common pool too. And all these exchanges are accurately accounted for by the meters that turn forward or backward depending on the direction of flow of power through the meter. Isn't this the kind of peer-to-peer mechanism you were looking for. Of course, this is a special case, because the meters are already there. How can this be extended to other situations and cases? Do we always need to have metering equipment? Can computers perform a similar recording function for other peer-to-peer activities/exchanges?
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