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Marijuana causes global warming, uses 1% of U.S. electricity
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Marijuana causes global warming, uses 1% of U.S. electricity San Francisco Business Times - by Steven E.F. Brown Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 10:38am PDT - Last Modified: Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 10:46am PDT
People growing marijuana indoors use 1 percent of the U.S. electricity supply, and they create 17 million metric tons of carbon dioxide every year (not counting the smoke exhaled) according to a report by Evan Mills, an energy analyst at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
After medical pot use was made legal in California in 1996, Mills says, per-person residential electricity use in Humboldt County jumped 50 percent compared to other parts of the state.
In order to produce some 17,000 metric tons of marijuana this year, Mills estimates authorized growers will use $5 billion worth of energy. That works out to the output of seven big electric power plants.
Much of the carbon dioxide produced by the industry comes from transportation, though the need for lights “500-times greater than recommended for reading” also uses a lot of power and generates a lot of pollution. Air conditioning, ventilation and humidity control also contribute.
In California, some 400,000 authorized growers use about 3 percent of the state’s electricity for their business.
“This corresponds to the electricity use of 1 million average California homes, greenhouse-gas emissions equal to those from 1 million average cars, and energy expenditures of $3 billion a year,” Mills says. However, since California is such a green state, it only generates 20 percent of national carbon dioxide emissions from pot growing, while using 70 percent of nationwide energy for this industry.
“From the perspective of individual consumers, a single Cannabis cigarette represents 2 pounds of (carbon dioxide) emissions,” Mills says.
For this report, which he published independently, Mills says he didn’t count the energy used in producing fertilizer, water, equipment and building materials also used in indoor pot farms.
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Re: Marijuana causes global warming, uses 1% of U.S. electricity [Re: luvdemshrooms]
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Re: Marijuana causes global warming, uses 1% of U.S. electricity [Re: luvdemshrooms]
#14288384 - 04/14/11 03:42 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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People still believe in global warming and carbon footprints? Carbon has a negligible effect on global temperature. "Global Warming"; that's just another buzz phrase to get tax money for racketeers. I tried finding this report by Evan Mills but it seems to be missing.
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Re: Marijuana causes global warming, uses 1% of U.S. electricity [Re: SWEDEN]
#14288399 - 04/14/11 03:53 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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fuck them. I cause global warming....i take full aeresol cans out to the shooting range, crazy glue the button down light the stream on fire and shoot them...then they go up in a fireball....global warming is tree hugging hippie bullshit.
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Re: Marijuana causes global warming, uses 1% of U.S. electricity [Re: luvdemshrooms]
#14288406 - 04/14/11 03:57 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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As long as you can pay for it, and they can supply it, who cares.
I don't see studies on how many people have like 10 coral reef tanks with chillers, pumps, full spectrum lighting, let alone all the other junk you need running for coral reef tanks, let alone all the pool heating electricity that is almost 100% waste....so again, like, why is Lawrence Berkeley (heard of Lawrence Livermore, but not Lawrence Berkeley) wasting money on a study about this? Seriously?
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Re: Marijuana causes global warming, uses 1% of U.S. electricity [Re: sandi]
#14288447 - 04/14/11 04:34 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Funny how they pin a plant with global warming. The irony is paramount. I think if they were smart about it, they could cut energy costs by a percentage if they just streamlined lights and grow rooms. Bad article, but fun read.
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Re: Marijuana causes global warming, uses 1% of U.S. electricity [Re: thelivingfreekshow]
#14288459 - 04/14/11 04:44 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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thelivingfreekshow said: fuck them. I cause global warming....i take full aeresol cans out to the shooting range, crazy glue the button down light the stream on fire and shoot them...then they go up in a fireball....global warming is tree hugging hippie bullshit.
LMAO
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Re: Marijuana causes global warming, uses 1% of U.S. electricity [Re: AbstraKt_I_Am]
#14288887 - 04/14/11 08:43 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Huh, thats funny as Canaries is a plant; it absorbs carbon dioxide. So long as the power is not from fossil fuel its near carbon neutral. Not like it matters, global warming isn't caused by green house gases, its more or less the sun going through its own cycle.
Sandi also makes a valid point, how many people have power suckers which serve no purpose other than aesthetics? How many stores leave their lights on over night, with a general lack of customers? How many people idle their cars during cold months or just to run inside and come back out?
If you want to blame a large portion of energy usage to a medicine that helps some seriously sick people live and actually enjoy their life, without trying to improve the efficiency, then you are a piece of shit plain and simple. Reduce/remove all the bullshit laws around it, and free market will find a balance that is efficient and cost effective.
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Re: Marijuana causes global warming, uses 1% of U.S. electricity [Re: MidRange]
#14288958 - 04/14/11 09:09 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Well maybe then they should legalize weed so growers can feel safe enough planting outdoors and using natures energy.... oh wait, they cant tax that.
The U.S.A is run by a bunch of backwards fucktards as is the rest of this god forsaken world.
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Re: Marijuana causes global warming, uses 1% of U.S. electricity [Re: MidRange]
#14288962 - 04/14/11 09:10 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Marijuanna is much more useful and less wasteful than the televisions in nearly everyones houses across North America. Televisions have a much worse carbon footprint and contribute to global warming, they are not biodegradeable, they use a lot of electricity. Seems to me that growing a useful plant is much more worthwhile than watching tv for an hour or two a day.
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Re: Marijuana causes global warming, uses 1% of U.S. electricity [Re: digitalemu]
#14289155 - 04/14/11 10:07 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Hmmmmm, how to offset carbon...if only we could grow plants freely outside that matured in under 6-12 months...
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Re: Marijuana causes global warming, uses 1% of U.S. electricity [Re: dwpineal]
#14289667 - 04/14/11 11:53 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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don't know if this has been pointed out yet, but plants turn carbon dioxide into oxygen threw photosynthesis.
how the hell does the writer of this article not see or understand that?!?!
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Re: Marijuana causes global warming, uses 1% of U.S. electricity [Re: dwpineal]
#14289957 - 04/14/11 01:00 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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HybridprX said: Well maybe then they should legalize weed so growers can feel safe enough planting outdoors and using natures energy.
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dwpineal said: Hmmmmm, how to offset carbon...if only we could grow plants freely outside that matured in under 6-12 months...
My thoughts exactly.
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Re: Marijuana causes global warming, uses 1% of U.S. electricity [Re: Remix]
#14290133 - 04/14/11 01:37 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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true that. Dont believe in Global warming. Just a hoax as far as im concerned. And theres definitely ways to fix it. The natural carbon cycle says that plants absorb carbon from the air and some of it gets stored into the soil. Much of the earths carbon is already in the soil. If anything, marijuana can be used to help offset carbon, just like dwpineal said.
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Re: Marijuana causes global warming, uses 1% of U.S. electricity [Re: thelivingfreekshow]
#14291167 - 04/14/11 04:28 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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thelivingfreekshow said: fuck them. I cause global warming....i take full aeresol cans out to the shooting range, crazy glue the button down light the stream on fire and shoot them...then they go up in a fireball....global warming is tree hugging hippie bullshit.
That sounds fun as shit and a great way to start a diversion/barrier fire say if you need to escape from some motherfuckers and you're in a wooded environment
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