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Growing pot is hardly green; is it time for LEED for weed?

Submitted by Marijuana News on Thu, 01/22/2015 - 15:34

With recreational marijuana production and sales now legal in Colorado and two other states, utilities and energy efficiency experts are waking up to the challenge posed by an industry with a massive appetite for power that runs on 1980s technology.

Cultivating cannabis takes energy. Lots of energy.

A 2011 peer-reviewed study by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory found that on a per-square-foot basis, it takes 356 percent more energy to run a cannabis operation than it takes to operate a hospital ( Read the report here).

Nationally, cannabis operations consume one percent of the nation's electricity or $6 billion a year and account for 15 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions. That's the equivalent of putting 3 million passenger cars on the road.

The industry's outlaw history is the problem. With few new innovations and little attention to becoming efficient, the typical cannabis operation is a cluster of cross-competing activities....

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