People have no bloody idea about saving energy

Re:People have no bloody idea about saving energy by crpatino on Wednesday August 18, 2010 @03:56PM (#1615394)

I think you are right, but still... would prefer to keep the model simple.

The purpose of using the price as an indicator is to roughly estimate the inputs required to manufacture a product. Under that assumption, profit margins are noise.

Of course, profits are eventually expended, but so are the cost paid to suppliers, the taxes and so on. You would have to think about velocity of money and the overall macroeconomic effect. This is way overkill.

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Re:People have no bloody idea about saving energy by keenerd on Wednesday August 18, 2010 @10:29PM (#1616334)

Or just take the limit as time->infinity and simplify it to price=pollution.

If you want this taken to the logical extreme, see http://www.tinaja.com/glib/energfun.pdf where it is argued that "using dollars = spending gasoline". As oil is the cheapest available energy source, everything eventually becomes oil burnt.

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