What makes the world go ’round? Sex. And oh, yeah: the sun. Pretty sure the sun is involved, too.

But enough about my life, ha! You don’t care that I’m married to a solar energy professional or that we offset 100% of our energy use with wind and solar power. You aren’t reading ahead with bated breath wondering, “does she have a Tesla, too?”

(The answer is no, not yet.)

No; you’re like: “What’s this article about? I’m into commercial real estate, blockchain, getting paid, and getting laid.”

Who am I to argue? Those are excellent interests, hobbies, and careers. That’s exactly what this post is about.

How Do I Get Laid Using Blockchain, Solar, or that Dumpy Commercial Building I Bought?

Glad you asked. You’re already ahead of most people because you’ve got divergent interests. Boring people do not get laid.

In the blockchain space there are plenty of dating app startups. Do we really need a public, permanent record of every bad date or failed relationship? Forget about those.

(Half joking here. Most of those dating projects use blockchain for identity. Maybe that’s good. My hunch is that where love is concerned, blockchain isn’t truly necessary…The exception is if you’re into it, in which case, finding someone willing to discuss blockchain or at least listen to you yammer on about it is required.)

Turn your mind instead to creative thinking.

Step 1: Use Real Estate to Generate Solar Power

My friend Miha proposed this on Twitter recently:

I think this is a brilliant idea! Adding solar to brownfields is an excellent strategy of reuse and remediation. In the States we’ve got plenty of them.

Don’t think you must limit yourself to land in need of remediation, though. As real estate needs change plenty of less-than-desirable commercial real estate can — and should — be re-imagined. Solar power generation is a profitable possibility.

Step 2: Tokenize & Sell Solar Energy (Like a Boss)

Money in solar energy? For commercial real estate? Yes.

Most discussions about solar revolve around how much power one roof can generate. The bigger the building and the more energy it consumes, the smaller the apparent financial return. Many projects will pay for themselves quickly, especially while tax credits last, but many cannot offset their use completely.

This is where the global marketplace is necessary. This the market where you make money. Forget your roof for a minute. Think about every roof on the planet.

Remember how I told you that we offset 100% of our energy use? That’s possible thanks, in part, to a solar installation. That solar installation is on top of a mall in New Jersey, hundreds of miles away.

The mall built the solar installation. I purchased the rights to specific panels. A company in the middle (Arcadia Power) matches my energy use with wind power. They also deduct my solar use and deliver a reduced bill for a small monthly fee. (“My” wind farm is also hundreds of miles away in Ohio.)

If I move, I can “take” the windmills and the solar panels with me.

Arcadia Power is only available in the U.S. What if there was a global network instead? That’s the potential power of tokens on the blockchain.

Writes Srinivasan Keshav, Professor, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo in How blockchain can democratize green power:

What if we could reduce the cost of certification, eliminate onerous auditing and avoid non-market price controls, so that even a small-scale green generator could de-risk investments?

Further — what if you could do all if this directly on the global market? Instead of owning or selling portions of projects you could do the same with the building’s energy use or generation. You could profit from real estate another way!

That’s another reason I’m excited about Blocksquare, a plug-and-play protocol for commercial real estate exchange. A global exchange of real estate assets, accessible to the smallest investor, could:

facilitate payments to and from clean energy generation, furthering our global move to renewable energy;

facilitate a new revenue model for commercial real estate owners (including fractional ownership); for example, solar-powered garages that can charge vehicles;

facilitate direct exchange, reducing fees and providing more enriching opportunities.

As James Paine, founder of West Real Estate Advisors writes in 5 Stats That Show Why Real Estate Is Ripe for Disruption in Inc.:

According to the World Economic Forum, the real estate sector consumes more than 40% of the energy produced globally and buildings use 40% of the raw materials we produce. That makes the real estate industry the largest global consumer of resources by quite a fair margin.

That is a huge margin of opportunity to make an environmental difference and a profit.

Another friend from the Blocksquare project explains in this video:

Or, you can watch this video with Blocksquare’s CEO, Denis:

All to say:

Now that you know all of this is possible, now that you’re thinking creatively, and now that you’re actively participating in building a better future… this makes you downright irresistible.

Go get ’em, tiger!

Step 3: The Slap-and-Tickle Stuff is Up to You

You can thank me later.