cleantechnica.com — 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.
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jeffkeeJan 6, 2009
"What's the smell coming from the heat ducts?"
bomanthebearJan 6, 2009
There's something pervasively unsettling about being enveloped in a blanket of fried human heat.Or maybe that's just me.
cynicaltylerJan 6, 2009
I think the title is a bit misleading, although I grant it's more funny that way. After all, it's not like people are burning bodies for fuel, or to create heat. They're creating a really hot fire and then putting in the bodies to cremate them. So I don't think the *bodies* are really adding much to the generated heat. More accurate would be to say "crematorium furnaces to provide heat to crematorium facilities".Yeah okay. So I'm splitting hairs. Sue me. You can find me at the Accuracy Police Headquarters.
godlikeJan 6, 2009
What if it malfunctions and fills the place with lbehlbehblbeuehbhhbeHWARF
slapthemonkeyJan 7, 2009
A laudable and novel effort to conserve energy
marsbeyondJan 7, 2009
Green goes morbid! Your lifeclock is on Red! Run Runner! Renew! RENEW!!
seobroJan 8, 2009
Soylent smoke is people!
Closed AccountJan 8, 2009
Unless the people you're cremating were raised on a diet of coal or some other fossil source of carbon, I don't see why anyone would need to worry about the carbon emissions. Anyway, letting heat go to waste is just stupid. Especially in Sweden, which of course needs a lot of heat. And especially considering that many towns in Sweden have a extensive central-heating network to feed into.