Pot isn't green

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onehandle  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Tue Apr-12-11 07:18 PM
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U.S. Marijuana Industry Responsible for $5 Billion in Energy Consumption
   
Edited on Tue Apr-12-11 07:26 PM by onehandle
Ariel Schwartz — It might be all-natural, but that joint you're smoking has a serious carbon footprint: marijuana growth uses 1% of all U.S. energy. Buzzkill, stoner pals. Your weed is really bad for the environment. Only the stuff that's grown inside, to be fair—the kind of boutique-y, mind-blowing pot preferred by many marijuana dispensaries. It's responsible for 1% of all electricity use in the U.S. That's a $5 billion yearly energy bill—two million U.S. homes' worth—just to get you super stoned.

The sobering news comes from a report by Evan Mills, a longtime energy analyst at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs who, uh, has a friend who told him about all this weed stuff. According to Mills, the problem can be traced back to the high-intensity lighting, dehumidification, air-conditioning, irrigation systems, space-heating, and ventilation systems that all go into making sure marijuana plants grow up to be healthy, smokeable adults. And since the industry operates in the shadows, it hasn't felt the consumer pressure to go green (rimshot!).

Mills's report gets even more intense when the energy consumption figures are broken down into consumer-friendly numbers. Smoking a single joint is the same as leaving a 100-watt light bulb on for 17 hours. For you more committed drug peddlers out there, each kilo is the same as five cross-country drives in a 44-mpg car.

So, smoking a joint of indoor-grown pot is like leaving the lights on for a day, and sitting around for hours with a handful of friends and a bong is as bad carbon emissions-wise as taking a really long road trip. Evan Mills has yet to calculate the added environmental costs of your vaporizer.

http://gizmodo.com/#!5791320/buzzkill-of-the-day-us-mar...

While watching 'Weeds' it occurred to me that indoor growers use a Lot of power-hungry equipment.

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This is sure to be a dilemma for the pot heads at DU.
Do they continue to get stoned? Or do they save Mother Earf?

sarcasmo  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Tue Apr-12-11 07:20 PM
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1. Carbon tax on weed, some funny shit.

You have to be high to support a carbon tax.

walldude  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Tue Apr-12-11 07:22 PM
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2. Oh I see. So we should grow all our weed outdoors
   
Edited on Tue Apr-12-11 07:22 PM by walldude
so we can get ****ing busted by a nation that wants to complain about our energy use but makes it illegal to grow outside.

Yeah. ****. This. BULLSHIT.


I'm serious, anyone who buys this or believes this, should come out for legalization or crawl back under their rock.

Unrecced, crapped all over and spit upon.

Anyone who does something illegal, like smoking pot, then broadcasts it on DU must be dumb enough to broadcast putting subliminal messages on his power point presentation.

Mojeoux  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Tue Apr-12-11 07:31 PM
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9. Duh! Legalize it and Weed Growers would be PROUD TO PAY any energy taxes,   Updated at 7:31 PM
   
Legalize and more outdoor growing.

Your post is hopelessly outdated, ill informed and an obvious hit piece on weed.

A liberal proud to pay a tax?

 

Warren DeMontague  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Tue Apr-12-11 07:36 PM
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10. Okay, another reason to legalize it.
   
Add it to the mountain of other reasons to ****ING LEGALIZE IT ALREADY.

Save Mother Earf and legalize dope.
 

[JohnnyReb]

Take Bill Ayers advice and kill 20,000,000 worthless DUmmies. That would go a long way toward saving energy and the Earf.

[Skul]

Oh, my.
I think someone just burned "smoked" a mole.

[GOBUCKS]

walldude  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Tue Apr-12-11 07:22 PM
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2. Oh I see. So we should grow all our weed outdoors
   
so we can get ****ing busted by a nation that wants to complain about our energy use but makes it illegal to grow outside.

Yeah. ****. This. BULLSHIT.


I'm serious, anyone who buys this or believes this, should come out for legalization or crawl back under their rock.

Unrecced, crapped all over and spit upon.

DUmmy walldud didn't get nearly this apoplectic when the Freepers got him fired from the only decent job he's ever held. Shows where his priorities lie.

[Skul]

Goodness, wallpud is a bit grouchy.
Yo, wallpud, buy a six pack.
It's legal, it's cheaper, and lasts for a couple hours if you pace yourself.

[true_blood]

Mojeoux  (1000+ posts)    Tue Apr-12-11 07:31 PM
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9. Duh! Legalize it and Weed Growers would be PROUD TO PAY any energy taxes, 
Updated at 7:31 PM
Legalize and more outdoor growing. Your post is hopelessly outdated, ill informed and an obvious hit piece on weed.

Wow, this primitive sounds like he/she/it has some experience with "weed growing".
Keep on smoking it and keep on dumbing down DUmbass.