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Heater and Wind Machine One of the Active frost protection method is the Heater to help replacing energy losses from plants we must provide a heat source the heating source either from operate as open fires or using one of the Heater types such as Return stack oil fuel heaters by increase the temperature of metal objects the released heat from the heaters transfer to the plants by convection and from the heater the radiant energy travels directly to the plants due to the large amount of smoke and emissions some heaters may not be legal to use to make sure that all the energy losses are replaced we should add enough heater to cover all the crop area The orchard heaters and wind machines are extremely high costs labor intensive for example Labor required to refill liquid fuel heaters and environmental pollution is a major disadvantage Koc et al 2000 the mechanism of orchard propane heaters by circulating hot air mixing up the cold air near the ground with the latter being able to warm up the ground temperature up to 21ºF 6 1 C Orchard heaters replace the energy loss by adding the heat to the orchard However orchard heaters are not an efficient method as a large portion of energy is lost in the sky wind frequently interferes and the heaters contribute to air pollution for this reason the oil fired heaters have been banned in many areas
California is still working out its kinks but it currently has a 15 on recreational and medicinal marijuana and cultivator will have to pay 9 25 per dry ounce of flowers and 2 75 per dry ounce of leaves These taxes add to the overall production cost which causes a decrease in the supply of marijuana However Colorado alone had revenues over 638 million in just the last four years These revenues are deposited into two funds the Building Excellent Schools Today BEST Fund and the Marijuana Tax Cash Fund MCTF Sibuagh 2015 The first 40 million went into the BEST fund which is used to renew or reconstruct any public schools The MTCF fund receives the state sales tax revenue that is collected on medical and retail marijuana after the 40 million each year This money is supposed to be spent within the following year on health care health education substance abuse prevention and treatment programs and law enforcement Sibuagh 2015 So basically these taxes help the economy because they go back into the economy by creating more jobs and making the more efficient These taxes can create more jobs like construction on schools more teaching healthcare and law enforcement jobs because they have more funding so can hire more people construction on new hospitals etc However this only works if the tax burden does not exceed the optimal tax rate which is the percentage of GDP that comes from taxes Eichelkraut 2017 If the tax burden does exceed the rate then the economic growth will slow
