Dead People Will Provide Heat to Crematorium Facilities
If you’re dead and worried about the carbon emissions created from your cremation, relax. The Swedish town of Halmstad has a solution. After an environmental review showed that Halmstad’s crematorium was pumping too much smoke into the air, the facility’s director decided to re-use heat from the cremations to warm up the crematorium’s buildings.
The plan will both eliminate the crematorium’s heating bill and allow it to save money on cooling smoke before it is released into the air.
Locals in the town of 55,000 approve of the crematorium’s system, so it should be up and running soon. If the plan is successful, the crematorium eventually wants to pipe heat from its facilities to area homes. And while some may protest Halmstad’s plan on moral grounds, I’m sure that the potential monetary savings for the town will ultimately keep them quiet.
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scary!!!
Proud to be a Swede
Soylent Green is people!!!
Beautiful example of a closed-loop system. I’d be so glad to know that my cremation was helping to heat the homes of the living!
I wonder if there is some way to use the fires of hell in a geothermal district heating scheme?
Proud to be a Turnip.
Makes sense to me. I won’t be using my body once I’m dead and letting the heat go to waste is just, well, wasteful.
I had to look at this in terms of how I would feel if after I died would I object to my body being turned into fuel.
I would have to say, No! I strive to be of use in my lifetime and why would I object after death?
If they are going to use my body heat, I’d like to have a discount on my cremation costs please.
Are they going to remove the gold from my teeth as well? I have glasses too.
I suppose if locals in a town of 55,000 Swedes approve of it, it must be PRACTICAL AND EFFICIENT.
My God, I bet they’ve got a conveyor belt feed on the drawing board.
talk about spiritual energy