If 'energy' is/were to be considered the be-all-and-end-all of everything, the true and definitive, unerring and all-authoritative 'measure of a (wo)man'...
then you'd surely have to give it hands down; no questions asked; no ifs, buts or maybes even countenanced...
to such 'great and glorious' historical personages as those admittedly high-energy individuals like
Adolf Hitler - Genghis Khan - Atilla the Hun - Pol Pot - Mao Tse-Tung - Josef Stalin et al.
For, in that one respect, anyhow, they were each and every last one of them head and shoulders above any and every compatriot or fellow earth-dweller of their day, and/or before or since...
But if that's the low bar we've now attained to, the nadir we've inescapably reached...
then heaven/God help us all, for we'll surely need it; and ipso pronto, as in yesterday and countin'...
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