Kush RX:
You may have missed the point. A/g's are a good place for novices to start and we're not commercial growers. It's compact, self contained and if you follow a few common sense rules they're pretty user friendly for someone who wants to grow just enough for personal use. I harvest less than a couple of ounces a month, not pounds, but my energy costs are insignificant and a lot less than a friend who went whole hog on hydroponics and lit up his crop with about 4,000 watts of electricity and fans he had to pay for. Eventually he got kicked out of his apartment because it started to stink like a grow op. There's also something to be said too about spilling 112 ounces of nutrient mix that can be sopped up with a bath towel compared to the 18 gallons that leaked out of his reservoir over a long weekend while he was gone. It flooded everything in his apartment and ruined the ceiling of the one down stairs. He still looks down his nose at my little A/G but my buds are just as good as his.