Cannabis industry group pushes green seal and tax credits
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Cannabis: Huge Carbon Footprint Due to Insatiable Demand!
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Back in the pre-legalization days, cannabis production meant finding a rarely visited patch of land and growing outside, or it meant taking cultivation indoors typically to a basement where your product wouldn t be visible from the outside world. But the power-use involved in lighting a basement growing space was legendary.
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With legalization, it s really only the scale that has changed. Most legal marijuana is grown indoors, with some pretty hefty electrical use to match. Now, researchers have attempted to quantify the greenhouse gases emitted, and they came up with some impressive figures. Based on their calculations, cannabis production results in over 2,000 kilograms of carbon dioxide emitted for every kilogram of product (defined as
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Smokable hemp is displayed at the World Ag Expo in Tulare, Calif., in 2020. A university study has found that indoor cannabis farms give the industry a giant carbon footprint. Indoor cannabis cultivation uses more energy than coal mines, a university study found.
University scientists have discovered something about cannabis that may unnerve some of its most ardent consumers: its drain on the environment is substantial.
A new study by Colorado State University researchers found that electricity production and natural gas consumption from indoor environmental controls, high-intensity grow lights, and supplies of carbon dioxide for accelerated plant growth are ballooning the crop s carbon footprint.