A wind farm in West Virginia has been using big containers of batteries to make the electricity from 61 turbines more useful to the power grid.
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Batteries on a Wind Farm Help Control Power Output
There’s nothing green about growing the green stuff in your house–that’s the upshot of a surprising, even mind-boggling (but lamely titled) new study on the carbon footprint of marijuana-growing operations by a scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Evan Mills, who conducted the study in his spare time, and even so may get a stern talking to from his supervisors tomorrow, found that indoor growing operations use lighting as intense as hospital operating rooms, ventilation more powerful than that in a biotech laboratory, and power intensity equal to a data center. In other words, pot farmers are huge energy hogs who are obviously destroying the planet. How much energy? The analysis performed in this study finds that indoor Cannabis production results in energy expenditures of $5 billion each year, with electricity use equivalent to that of 2 million average U.S. homes. This corresponds to 1% of national electricity consumption or 2% of that in households. The yearly greenhouse-gas pollution (carbon dioxide, CO) from the electricity plus associated transportation fuels equals that of 3 million cars. Energy costs constitute a quarter of wholesale value. Wow . That’s a lot of energy. Kind of makes Cheech and Chong look like the Koch Brothers, doesn’t it? Maybe they should stop growing that stuff. Or, you know, grow it outdoors.
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Marijuana Growing Consumes 1% of Nation’s Energy
An elderly widow is robbed of £7,000 she saved for her husband’s funeral after a thief claims he was checking her electricity.
The power has gone out in a typical American town. Wait — it’s not just the electricity. The phones don’t work, either. Portable radios are dead. Cars won’t start. But then lawn mowers and cars and lights inexplicably start and stop on their own. What’s going on? A meteor? Sunspots? Or are there, as Tommy’s comic book suggests, aliens among us, preparing for a takeover? Suspicion poisons the air. Neighbor turns on neighbor. A scapegoat is blamed. A shot is fired. Panic, madness, riot. read more
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The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
ESB, the main electricity company in the Republic, has bought Northern Ireland Electricity (NIE) for £1.2bn.
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Ireland’s ESB buys NIE for £1.2bn
Thousands of people in China are to have their electricity restored after the reversal of an order for enforced power cuts to meet energy-saving goals.
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China U-turn on enforced blackout
