Although chestnut is profitable to exploit when hickory is limited, acorns are too costly to use under most environmental conditions unless efficent processing techniques are used.
Only Saudi Arabia and Venezuela have greater proven oil reserves than Canada, but 97% of Canada's 174 billion barrels are in oil sands, mostly in Alberta.In this section Deep secrets Lowbrow art The steam from below ReprintsIn the past decade high oil prices have made the oil sands profitable to exploit.
The development of laptops and mobile phones has depended on lithium batteries, and demand has grown to the point where it is now profitable to exploit the mineral even when it is found in a place as remote and inaccessible as this.
The other probable winners are the Canadian producers from that country's extensive tar sands which, at even half present crude prices, are profitable to exploit.
Although this paper presents evidence of return predictability in the Indian GETF market, it remains unknown whether is economically profitable to exploit this predictability same when weighed up against the underlying costs, such as transaction costs.
We are interested in finding the minimal level of a particular resource that it is profitable to exploit, considering resource costs imposed by the environment (i.e. the minimal amount for which the benefits of acquiring the resource are larger than the costs of acquiring the resource).
The Amazon DVD, 'ground zero south', shows the disastrous results of an economic system where destroying the forest is more profitable than exploiting the standing forest with its infinite biodiversity.
Pappas told the LA Times that he comes from a pro-union background and believes that a company can be profitable without exploiting its workers.
But having that BEMI and creating a profitable product to exploit it were two entirely different matters.
Perhaps most important, Washington used the chicken tariff to wall off the light-truck market, giving American automakers a protected and profitable niche to exploit.
