Energy Survey of North America

The Energy Survey of North America was done by the Technical Alliance, the leader of which was Howard Scott. This survey was composed of data from government and private sources. The data focused on physical economic indicators such as raw resource extraction, manufacturing stats, and energy usage. This project was first started in the winter of 1918/1919. The Technical Alliance was formed in conjunction with the Industrial Engineering Department at Columbia University, and began an empirical analysis of production and employment in North America in energy units.
When this survey was completed, Technocracy Incorporated was started to inform the public of the findings of the survey, and to advocate the idea of creating a Technate in North America as the basis of a new type of society using an Energy Accounting system.. The conclusions of the survey are presented in the Technocracy Study Course first published in 1934, which contains a synopsis of the energy survey and also basic information about science and the proposal (technate), for an alternative Non-market economics culture, which the group termed a scientific social design. The system proposed, uses the metrics of energy, as opposed to a Price system.
Technical Alliance project
The Technical Alliance measured and assessed the extent of the land's natural resources of soil, metals, fuels, hydrology and its energy resources, its transport and communications and construction capabilities, its industrial and technological productive capacity, its available scientific, engineering, biological trained personnel--all to determine whether the area of North America could provide an equitably individualized high optimum standard of living for its population, and if so, how this could be brought about in the form of a governing body which they later referred to as a technate.

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