Waste Heat Tax

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "victoriatangoman"
wrote:
> 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

Insufficience data. I personally doubt that waste heat will be that
big of a problem. But we can't tell until we build a few Habitats. I
expect them to be built before hand to get rid of waste heat easily.

How about the waste heat given off by people? Us warm-blooded types
generate some of our own. I figure all the waste heat sources will be
too complex to easily keep track of.

So I support a general tax until further information is gained.

Rick Brooks