Waste Heat Tax

Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: Waste Heat Tax

# 5415 bytango_dancer@... on June 21, 2004, 9:45 a.m.
Member since 2021-10-03

Do you think that a Habitat will have a charge for ridding the waste
heat created by residents?

Will they charge a surtax on electrical appliances? Will they charge
a surtax on your electricity usage? Or will they not attempt to
regulate this at all and provide the facilities as part of your
general taxes?

What if people don't care how much waste heat they generate because
they don't pay directly for the removal mechanisms? This would treat
waste heat as an economic externality. Think of greenhouse gases
here on Earth.

What, if anything, should be done?

TangoMan