  Regardless of the gold-standard being considered as outdated, it provides
valuable signs concerning the development of novel monetary standards, better
adjusted to the current macroeconomic environment. By using a point of view of
classical physics, the intent of this work is doing a review of the concept of
monetary standard and show that the energy matrix of an economy together with a
new monetary standard, based on the energy supply capacity, can play an
essential role in the sustainable growth.
