That is like expressing time without distance, or velocity without direction. You assume there is a culture behind your energy, and then leave it to chance for people to figure that culture out. In money, there are mixed measures as you claim. Money is a measure of work, which is force acting along a direction. The direction is culture.
Force can arise from any expenditure of energy either from human, animal, or machine.
As long as that expenditure is acting in the direction of cultural growth, value is earned. This mixed measure system is still superior to a singular parameter system, since it at least limits value to something intelligible to a human subject. What we need is more than a valuation of energy, we need to reconfigure the social, or cultural component of that energy expenditure in order for it to become coherent. I have offered two suggestions myself. Here is the second parameter, dropped into your lap, yet you choose to remain idealistic about it, pooh pooh it like it has no merit.