storable

The idea is to overproduce storable goods now, when you can, in case you cannot produce food in the future (crop failure, war, etc.).

If it's the case that there are other existing solutions that are simultaneously as {cheap, nutritious, tasty, storable} as Soylent, then the problem is marketing.

Examples of such features include divisibility; easily and securely storable and transportable; scarcity; and difficulty to counterfeit.

Gasoline, diesel and oil are simply the only readily available sources of energy that's immediately and cheaply transportable and storable.

Just like sometimes the boss wants to discuss things in person or over the phone rather than in storable text format.

What you're describing would be valuable, but not if the only data storable is self-referencing.

With missiles, you want a storable propellant so that you can launch-on-demand -- not launch-after-fueling.

The number of bits storable in the (observable) universe is only, what, about 10^120?

Attention is not quantifiable, it is not fungible, and it is not storable.

But storable propellants were perhaps not such a good idea after all.

Maybe you could land a Falcon-ish booster loaded with a storable oxidizer (like peroxide) on little enough juice that it could get back into orbit.

I'll be interested to see how they address the problem of having stuff be freshly prepared and transportable/storable at the same time.

Edit: "burning storable propellant combination of nitrogen tetroxide as oxidizer and unsymmetrical dimethyl hydrazine as fuel.

I suspect that even with this current trend of "big data", we will hit limits of what is storable.

With overcapacity you've got the option of converting "excess" into other usable and storable forms of energy (hydrogen, methane, battery storage, electricity-to-fuels, etc.), or for intermittent but high-energy needs.

As for the trade you mention ("Even assuming you're building capacity specific to the need, what you're trading is a non-storable, non-mobile, non-dispatchable form of energy for one which has all of those properties"), I agree partly, but the question remains: what energy input should we use?

Storable propellants are good for upper stages that need to do long coast periods and many stops and starts.