The Energy Certificate
Technocracy Inc.'s 1938 pamphlet describing energy certificates as a replacement for money.
Pamphlet · 1938Sources & confidence: High confidence
Checked 19 October 2026 · AI-assisted review
The specimen certificate redrawn in the essay's graphic, and the surveillance passage.
- The Energy Certificate
Copyright 1938, Technocracy Inc.; the specimen 1937–38 Distribution Certificate; the sentence on tracing an individual's movements by his purchases.
- The Energy Certificate, later reprint in a Technocracy Inc. archive (TeamDesk)
The full specimen certificate specification (holder number, function code, units, purchase record) and the surveillance passage, in a reprint with a modern preface.
What this check doesn’t establish
- A later reprint in the TeamDesk archive carries a modern preface and a 1967–68 specimen; this record describes the 1938 edition.
Confidence applies to the scope above, not every claim made by the underlying source. How confidence works
The source for the energy-certificate graphic in the essay's first scrollytelling chapter.
The 1938 edition is on archive.org; a later reprint with the full specimen specification is in a Technocracy Inc. archive.
In the essays
- Neo-Technocracy: Same Dream, Bigger Budget
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Ideas
- Technocracy
Subject
Organisations
- Technocracy Inc.
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Catalogue source: knowledge/works/technocracy-inc-energy-certificate.md
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