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Something to consider is the effect growing will have on the power grid. In Portland there have been some blackouts caused by grow houses: http://www.oregonli

• facetube 11y ago
  "Seven is not a lot," said Tom Gauntt, spokesman for the utility.
• wavefunction 11y ago
  Our power grid is rickety and flakey, it needs some serious upgrades. 20,000W of grow lights is what, 40 modern desktops with 500W power supplies? The problem you're mentioning is more about fault tolerance and missing fail-over modes.
  • functionwave 11y ago
    And growing in residential spaces that were never wired for that much power draw, instead of commercial/industrial areas.
    • lmm 11y ago
      I'd be surprised. Just because it's legal doesn't make it exempt from zoning laws, and surely if you're moving into it because of legalization you'd want to stay legal with the rest of your business.
• erbo 11y ago
  And on the commercial real estate market. In central Denver, 1 out of every 11 industrial buildings is now being used for growing marijuana. It's gotten to the point that the owner of Mile High Comics is selling its headquarters building, looking to make a tidy profit in the process: http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/front-range/denver/mile-high-comics-owner-thanks-pot-for-real-estate-boom http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/front-range/denver/mile...
• vectorjohn 11y ago
  Yeah but four plants (the personal allowed number) can be grown on a few hundred watts. Nothing that's going to do anything to the power grid. And, brewing beer is legal but not every house does it. In fact, relatively few of them.