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Grass is Not So Green: Marijuana Has a Huge Carbon Footprint

By Tracey de Morsella on April 15, 2011 3 Comments Bay Citizen, California, Cannabis production, carbon footprint, CO2 emissions, criminalization, data centers, diesel fuel, energy demand, Energy Up in Smoke: The Carbon Footprint of Indoor Cannabis, environmental impact, Evan Mills, GHG, grass, green, greenhouse gas, greenhouse gas emissions, high-intensity lights, Indoor Cannabis, indoor cannabis production, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, LED lighting, Marijuana, medical marijuana, off-grid power production, pesticides, pot, Tracey de Morsella, U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, U.S. Department of Energy

Grass is Not So Green: Marijuana Has a Huge Carbon Footprint

indoor marijuana weed cannibisThe yearly greenhouse-gas pollution of the $40 billion per year marijuana industry is responsible for about 3% of all electricity use or 8% of household use. Indoor growers use high-intensity lights that are 500 times more powerful that a standard reading lamp. They also use several other high energy industrial practices. The closest comparison for these massive, industrial-style grow facilities are data centers, which consume about two percent of the nation’s electric power.

CO2 Capture and Storage Gains a Growing Foothold

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CO2 Capture and Storage Gains a Growing Foothold

The drive to extract and store CO2 from coal-fired power plants is gaining momentum, with the Obama administration backing the technology and the world’s first capture and sequestration project now operating in the U.S. Two questions loom: Will carbon capture and storage be affordable? And will it be safe? by David Biello, Editor of Scientific […]