RDL Policy on TaxesTypes of Taxes:
Income taxes -- based on profits
Corporate taxes -- based on profits
Sales taxes -- based on purchases
Value added taxes -- based on purchases
Stamp taxes -- based on transactions
Property taxes -- based on owning, living in or using property
Freedom from taxes -- based on reducing CO2
RDL Policy -- based on dealing only with activities which promote freedom from taxes on RDL and RDL's:
- joint venture partners,
- customers,
- suppliers,
- consultants,
- advisers,
- investors,
- associates,
- workers,
- officers,
- residents, who live in, or
- businesses,
- industrial plants located in, or
- gardens, farms, lots, parking garages, micro-airports, or landscaped parks,
- RDL's licensed, or approved, Utopia or Mini-Utopia Villages,
- DaviHas,
- Owners and/or, operators or users of
- Mother Hawks,
- Gavin Hawk class autogyros.
Tidal Wave of Interest in Global Warming and Fossil Fuel Damage
Reporters chided for not asking US Presidential Candidates about their policies on Global Warming:
- John McCain, Republican Candidate, comes up opposed to both George W. Bush's inaction, and Obama's Plan:
www.venturebeat.com/2008/05/12/john-mccain-fleshes-out-his-climate-policy-draws-contrast-with-obama/
At last, Scientific American's cover story on Ethics and Economics of Climate Change in June 2008, but nothing about it in: www.sciam.com/june2008
RDL releases Political Manifesto: click here RDL's Political Manifes or in left hand column.
Review of Wind Contribution to Electricity Supply
From the Wealth Daily:
“The US Energy Department reports achieving a 20% wind contribution to U.S. electricity supply would:
· Reduce carbon dioxide emissions from electricity generation by 25 percent in 2030.
· Reduce natural gas use by 11%;
· Reduce water consumption associated with electricity generation by 4 trillion gallons by 2030;
· Increase annual revenues to local communities to more than $1.5 billion by 2030; and
· Support roughly 500,000 jobs in the U.S., with an average of more than 150,000 workers directly employed by the wind industry.
· To achieve 20%, wind turbines would have to produce 300,000 megawatts of power, compared to today's generated 16,000 megawatts.”
“Mesa Power just ordered 667 turbines from General Electric to begin a $10 billion wind farm project in Texas. When completed by 2014, the wind farm will be capable of producing 4,000 megawatts, or enough energy to power 1.2 million U.S. homes.”
RDL’s comments:
This allows for 833 watts per person, assuming 4 people per house.
The 4,000 megawatts from one plant, in one place, represents a 25% increase in the current share of electricity generation by wind, over that of burning natural gas. To get to the 20% of electricity from wind instead of fossil fuel (ie 300,000 megawatts from wind) would require 74 more plants, in the USA, or nearly 50,000 windmills, like this. Unless the cost/windmill is reduced by economies in mass production, this would cost $740b. But, this would be offset by 11% overall saving in the cost of natural gas, and could reduce the emission of CO2 by 25%. In a country where emission-cap-and-trades-system [ECTS] is allowed, this would earn (at current rates) $21/ton saved.
In the UK, RDL plans 64 Utopia, each with 50,000 residents and 5000 businesses. This is a total of 3,200,000 people and 320,000 businesses. Assuming the electricity requirements/person are the same as what required in a US house, this requires 2,667 megawatts. The capacity of one General Electricity’s wind farm with 667 wind turbines, producing 4,000 megawatts would have 1,333 megawatts left over to handle the businesses, industrial plants, buses, increases in communication facilities to reduce the need for commuting and business travel, and local generation and local distribution of hydrogen to fuel Zero-CO2 replacements for cars. Especially, allowing for the solar generation of electricity from roofs of houses, businesses and industrial plants would probably double the generation, making 4,000 megawatts available for supplying electricity outside the Utopia.
Some mix of capacity between wind, solar and underground heat sources of energy to produce electricity and hydrogen need to be evaluated, based on relative costs and degree of need for reliability of constant supply. This depends on many aspects of location characteristics. Also, the various demands for electricity, hydrogen and other Zero-CO2 requirements need to be factored in. For example, the cost of distribution of electricity is low cost. If direct-current [DC] systems need to be used instead of alternating-current [AC] systems, it is relatively easy to convert from one to the other, whereas distributed distribution of hydrogen, produced in a central point, instead of gasoline, diesel or petrol is much more problematic.
RDL normally operates as Managing Joint Venture Partner [MJVP] where a variety of Joint Venture Partners should have their resources and skills joined in multiple-discipline, high-technology projects. In looser situations, where unique skill or knowledge is required, by one project involving one or a few JVPs, RDL acts a Joint Venture Partner - Consultant [JVP-C].
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