Marijuana causes global warming

[boomerang]

Marijuana causes global warming, uses 1% of U.S. electricity

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.

Holy shit, this has got to stop. This is bad for the environment. I can hear Gaia screaming in agony. Let's all write our leaders in Congress! Who's with me?

 

[MotF Bane]

Hahaha. Legalize it, grown outdoors, and the environment is better, with less electricity consumed.

 

[soundforbjt]

Too bad they didn't legalize it.

Marijuana is California's number one cash crop, according to federal estimates, worth double the state's vegetable and grape crops combined -- or about $14 billion a year. The Ammiano legislation would create a regulatory structure for that market similar to that for beer, wine and liquor: it would regulate taxed sales to adults while barring sales to or possession by those under 21. Estimated annual revenue from fees and sales and excise taxes under the proposed regulations runs into the billions of dollars

 

[wuliheron]

Holy shit, this has got to stop. This is bad for the environment. I can hear Gaia screaming in agony. Let's all write our leaders in Congress! Who's with me?

I agree, we need more efficient growing lights.

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

Haha... I posted this in OT yesterday.

 

[Steeplerot]

Anti-Pot crowd are so precious. Yes, telling people that legalizing it will save the environment also is going to help your cause soooo much!

Folks this dumb might as well smoke themselves silly. Nothing to lose!

 

[Nemesis 1]

Or it could be the hispanic vote in cal. Voted NO as it would delete funds of the Motherland which is likely the case

 

[thraashman]

I can hear Gaia screaming in agony.

Gaia is in trouble?

Let our power combine ...
EARTH!

 

[xj0hnx]

Replace the PS and MH's and use florescent lights, with the right techniques it can be just as effective.

 

[bfdd]

LED grow lights are way to expensive and CFLs don't give you the light penetration(to get through the canopy) of HPS/MH. If LEDs come down in price you'll see even more people move to them, but when you can get 1 gram a watt with a good HPS/MH setup no one cares. It's so cheap and the profit margin is huge. If you got 10 bucks a gram, that's 10 grand for a 1000w HPS. 2 to 2 1/2 months for 10g's cash and probably a grand investment vs 3-4 grand investment going LED.

Though most people now aren't running HPS/MH full grows now, unless they're big grows. A lot of people veg under CFLs or tubes and then switch to the HPS for flowering. This is what I do.

 

[Londo_Jowo]

No problem, legalize marijuana and then completely ban smoking.

 

[DrPizza]

People growing marijuana indoors use 1 percent of the U.S. electricity supply

What the hell was he smoking when he came up with that statistic. I already pointed out in the OT thread that there's no friggin way that it consumes that much electricity. Maybe it was .01% and someone thought, "0.01 = 1%, so that must be what he's talking about."

 

[xj0hnx]

A lot of people veg under CFLs or tubes and then switch to the HPS for flowering. This is what I do.

Best way I think.

 

[William Gaatjes]

Marijuana causes global warming, uses 1% of U.S. electricity




Holy shit, this has got to stop. This is bad for the environment. I can hear Gaia screaming in agony. Let's all write our leaders in Congress! Who's with me?

It is a global warming issue because after smoking you have an eating frenzy and afterwards a few hours later a farting frenzy. CO2 and H2S primarily perhaps...

 

[bfdd]

Best way I think.

it's all right. i know a guy who does it all under MH/HPS and his veg is a bit shorter than mine, but whatev. just waiting for my lovely little ladies to get their roots down in the water and they'll explode.