uneconomical

With the surge in gold prices, Winmill said new mines are coming online, while older ones that were uneconomical when gold was at $2,000 an ounce are looking to ramp up production.

The revenue payback “will certainly have a chilling effect,” Handley told me, because the government fee “might make the initial investment appear uneconomical.”

Leaks in the roof and a failure of the steam system meant it became "uneconomical" to keep repairing the space.

So if there are four countries that would like to be independent, then it just thins down the process and makes the efforts very uneconomical.

While software helps guide the placement of the turbines to ensure the highest yield, poorly designed wind farms will generate less power than expected, making the wind farm uneconomical.