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The next time you're at an MSU football game sipping hot cocoa and watching the scoreboard light up with touchdowns, consider this: Spartan Stadium consumes enough electricity each month during the season to power 225 average households for the same period.

And that demand has environmental consequences.

The annual electricity demand by the stadium results in the burning of 480,000 pounds of coal, Eric Thomas, an MSU engineering graduate student, calculated for this project.

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This smoke stack towering over Spartan Stadium once
handled emissions from a campus power plant. It is
no longer in use. Photo by John O'Meara.