Environmental Economics

DECEMBER 6, 2013

In Part 1 of our Hotelling's Rule explanation , we laid out the basic economic observation that for a non-renewable, exhaustible resource with completely known stock, no discoveries possible, no alternatives, no recycling, private ownership and constant costs of extraction, the price of the resource will increase at the interest rate over time.  The complete stock of the resource is fully known and there is no more. There are no alternatives to the resource.

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Environmental News Network

MARCH 18, 2014

If you haven’t guessed it by now, Google invested specifically in clean wind power — $275 million in Texas resources alone. In addition, Google heated things up by including solar energy resources in the mix. That’s one of the reasons the company is aggressively moving to solar, wind and other alternative energies to power its data centers and banks of servers scattered around the world.”. The Benefits of Alternative Resources.

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Clean Energy 2014 Clean Energy 86

Environmental Economics

DECEMBER 2, 2013

  OK, it wasn't really over the Hotelling rule , but it was about Hotelling-like predictions of changes in depletable resource prices.    One observable indicator of Ehrlich's and his colleagues' dire predictions would be the Hotelling-like rise in depletable resource prices over time.    As resources become more scarce (reach their natural limits), prices would have to rise. 

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Green Prophet

MAY 31, 2014

Shipping box homes make sense where containers are available and alternate resources scarce, but it’s still cheaper and less energy consuming to build a structure using traditional framing or concrete block. Seems some people are turning to cargo container structures as a green alternative to traditional building.

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Environmental Economics

OCTOBER 18, 2017

In our Env-Econ 101 series (to the left), we have a lengthy two part explanation ( Part 1 , Part 2 ) of the Hotelling rule for depletable natural resources which is basically summarized as: For a non-renewable, exhaustible resource with completely known stock, no discoveries possible, no alternatives, no recycling, private ownership and constant costs of extraction, the price of the resource will increase at the interest rate over time.

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