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Priceless or Worthless: Why put dollar values on the environment? On Friday, Salon.com wrote a story on Krutilla's Conservation Reconsidered using John's post from last week as a point of departure.
The Salon article makes a reasoned argument for why Krutilla's work should have been unnecessary. While I respectfully disagree with a couple of Salon's conclusions, it is the comments that really have my hackles up-and I don't even know where my hackles are. One exchange in particular. A commenter asks: Is "priceless" equivalent to "worthless" to an economist?
Another commenter responds: Yes. Um...NO! No. Alright, that's enough fancy talk. When a local power plant wants to burn coal to generate electricity, it treats the air as a free waste disposal resource. Is monetizing the environment the perfect solution? Economists are often portrayed as the creators of the market system and self-interest--as if a group of economists sat around and said 'OK, we will make everyone act selfishly and then figure out a system to exploit that--damn the consequences.' P.S.
New perspectives on the energy return on (energy) investment (EROI) of corn ethanol: Part 1 of 2. The following is the first of two posts based on a recent paper published under the same title in the journal Environment, Development, and Sustainability.
The paper is divided into five sections, and to keep each post succinct, we have divided the paper into two posts. The first post will present the first two sections of the research and the second post will present the last three sections and the conclusions of the research. Fig. 2. Map of the EROI of corn ethanol production for counties within states that produced at least 1% of the corn harvest in 2005, and biorefinery locations. Introduction Over the past decade there has been considerable debate on corn ethanol, most focused on whether it is a net energy yielder. We believe that focus within the literature on whether or not corn ethanol yields a positive net energy gain has diverted attention from more fundamental issues. Second, most analyses to date, including those referenced above, use optimal (i.e. SEIA - Solar Energy Industries Association. About You are here Home » About » About SEIA Rhone Resch Rhone Resch is the President and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), the national trade association for the solar energy industry in the United States.
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