Marijuana grow Jim Wilson/the New York Times in a converted rooms in a house in Humboldt County, California.
Don't bogart that megawatts, my friend.
A new study estimates that $5 billion worth of electricity per year, or about 1% of national electricity consumption burn indoor operations growing pot in the United States about. This is enough electricity makes the two million average homes.
The electricity use of the typical grow operation approaches 200 watts per square metre, on par with the energy of a modern computer the data center, Evan Mills, a scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and author of the study, said in a statement. (The study completed in his spare time, and without federal funds Dr. Mills was added.)
The study estimates that a single joint, the equivalent contains the equivalent of about two pounds of carbon dioxide emissions a 100-watt light bulb running about 30 hours in the California grid.
Marijuana is regarded as the largest source of income of the country, estimated with a production value at about $40 billion per year. Legal restrictions have at all times in the last few years, been relaxed with cultivation for legal medical purposes in 17 States.
Still has a continuing federal ban on virtually all forms of pot growing keep the industry in the shade, to the considerable inefficiencies, said Dr. Mills.
He wrote "If improved practices for commercial agricultural greenhouses any claim that such large amounts of energy for indoor cannabis production are not required". "Low-cost efficiency of 75 percent are possible."
Such energy savings could be significant. In California, where about 400,000 people grow marijuana for personal medical use or for sale in pharmacies are licensed, indoor cultivation is use, responsible for a whopping 8 percent of household electricity costs about $3 billion per year and produce a million cars average annual carbon emissions.
"Current indoor cannabis production and distribution practices enormous energy consumption, costs and greenhouse gas pollution lead," wrote Dr. Mills. "The hidden growth of electricity demand in this sector confused energy forecasts and hidden savings of energy efficiency programs and policies."
Dr. Mills also noted that California's cleaner mix of fuels meant for making generation, that of the State, but despite his position as top marijuana producer of the country, only about 20 per cent of national CO2 emissions from the practice helped.
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