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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January 5th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
scary!!!
January 5th, 2009 at 11:12 pm
Proud to be a Swede
January 6th, 2009 at 3:38 am
Soylent Green is people!!!
January 6th, 2009 at 10:15 am
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!
January 6th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
I wonder if there is some way to use the fires of hell in a geothermal district heating scheme?
Proud to be a Turnip.
January 6th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
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.
January 6th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
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?
January 7th, 2009 at 10:30 am
If they are going to use my body heat, I’d like to have a discount on my cremation costs please.
January 8th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
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.
January 8th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
talk about spiritual energy
January 9th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
And when Nazis came up with this idead back in the 30’s they were called “monsters”, when they were simply ahead of the curve.
January 11th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
…and this has exactly *what* to do with fascism?
February 1st, 2009 at 5:53 pm
this is just plain creepy
February 16th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Hitler wasn’t murdering millions of Jews, he was heating millions of homes!
This may even make sense, but it looks SO BAD.. And if the State owns the power company?
April 4th, 2009 at 1:57 am
i think this is a great idea. america should do this. every country should.
June 27th, 2009 at 10:15 pm
Interested to know how much energy each human body could produce if burnt in a crematorium? Also, clearly thin people – say starved people – would produce a lot less – due to no fat. Wonder how much they would produce by comparison? If anyone has the answer please email me jm.clarkson007@btinternet.com
October 25th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
do dead people live on flesh?????????????? i want to know welll email me at 3:55.