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The high fixed and low variable costs of these technologies mean that once robots become more cost-effective than human labor, the trend will not reverse, especially given that automated assembly can be located close to markets, rather than where labor is cheapest.
But, instead of letting that debate rage while the planet heats up, policymakers should embrace one of the cheapest ways of cutting the air pollution that lies at the root of the problem: making buildings more efficient.
All the while, Americans have been enjoying the cheapest gasoline in the developed world.
When completed, the total cost of nuclear power is significantly higher than the cheapest fossil-fuel source.
Moreover, given that the plants are already paid for, waste facilities are already in place, and the high decommissioning cost will have to be paid regardless of timing, the actual operating costs are very low – half or lower per kilowatt-hour than the cost of the cheapest fossil fuels.
In the current economic climate, if a liquidity trap looms, helicopter money could be one of the cheapest and most effective tools for stimulating the economy.
No technology is as effective at storing carbon as tropical forests, and saving and restoring them offers one of the cheapest large-scale forms of emissions abatement or capture, while providing a host of other environmental and social benefits.
It is time for us to stop passively sticking a fork into what lands on our plates, and use our purchasing power to resist paying the cheapest price for food.
As a result, developers look for the cheapest land, which is obviously the least connected to the networks that would make it more valuable.
Any judicious person must admit that the cost is worthwhile, for the costliest preventive security is cheaper than the cheapest war.
Probably the single most telling statistic I cited was that the minimum wage (the wage earned by the median worker) measured in the cheapest available calorie, had declined from 52,854 calories per day in May 2012 to just 7,005 by May 2017 – not enough to feed a family of five.
The airing of opinions is the cheapest way to fill a broadcast hour; ranting anchors score the highest TRPs.
According to the latest WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, levying taxes on tobacco is one of the cheapest and most effective measures to prevent death and suffering.
For example, the EU demanded that renewables like wind and solar account for 20% of energy supplies by 2020, though this is by no means the cheapest way to cut emissions.
But it gets worse, because these models still assume that the EU picks the cheapest renewables to fulfill its requirements.
If the US uses the cheapest available fuels to produce energy, irrespective of the harm that burning those fuels does to others, it is giving its companies an unfair advantage over those elsewhere that are making a good-faith effort to reduce their greenhouse-gas emissions and meet their Paris pledges.
Increasingly open borders have made it easier for businesses to find the cheapest locations for their operations.
Some now argue that, in many sectors, the era of the “China price” – set by exporters who could offer the world's cheapest goods – may be coming to a close.
Of course, no one should write off the strength of China's export machine, even at the cheapest end of production.
Using the UK Electricity Generation Costs 2010 update and measuring in cost per produced kilowatt-hour, wind is still 20-200% more expensive than the cheapest fossil-fuel options.
The cheapest backup power by far is provided by open-cycle gas plants, which imply more CO2 emissions.
But most academic models show that the cheapest way to reduce CO2 by 20% in 2020 would be to switch from coal to cleaner natural gas.
The cheapest system, generating two watts of power, can cost as little as $10-20 and be expanded to almost any level, depending on the size and number of photovoltaic (PV) modules and the size of the battery storage unit.
While we would wish otherwise, it often remains the cheapest, most dependable energy source: the IEA estimates that, by 2040, coal will still be cheaper, on average, than solar and wind energy, even with a sizeable carbon tax.
Moreover, it had access to some of the world’s cheapest capital and labor, in an industry where labor accounted for more than 60% of manufacturing costs.
Given increasingly limited space, owing to population growth and higher demands on food production, this strategy will be difficult to implement, despite being the cheapest and most natural mechanism for capturing ambient carbon.
On the latest cost curves, however, it shows up as one of the cheapest.
In the United States, more than half of American families did not qualify, according to Federal Reserve data, to take out a loan that would allow them to buy the cheapest car for sale (the Nissan Versa sedan, priced at $12,825).
We are entering an era in which it will be commonplace to order a bespoke shirt that will then be made in the cheapest location in the world.
The current evidence suggests that, compared with Western nations, the intake of trans fats from partially hydrogenated oils may be much higher in developing countries, typically because partially hydrogenated oils represent the cheapest (and often subsidized) choice of fat for cooking.
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