Crematorium to heat council swimming pool

[hunter]

'A bit strange and eerie', shudders funeral director

By Lester Haines

A funeral director has described Redditch Borough Council's plan to use crematorium furnaces to heat a municipal swimming pool as "a bit strange and eerie".

The authority's novel idea involves sucking calories from Borough Of Redditch Cemeteries & Crematorium to the nearby Abbey Stadium Sports Centre.

The facility's cremators dispatch the departed into the hereafter at 800°C, the Telegraph notes, and that heat is lost to the heavens.

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/25/crematorium_plan

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Well, why not?

It's not quite Soylent Green.

[somone]

1. The Scandinavians are ahead of them

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/294963

In Denmark, the Aalborg crematorium has been sending its extra heat to local energy companies since April, and six other communities will soon be doing the same. When a new crematorium in Zealand is completed, it will generate enough heat for a hundred homes for a year... The story is much the same in Halmsted, Sweden, where improvements to a local crematorium included a plan to use the extra heat in the facility first, and then sometime this year, begin piping the heat into the district heating system.

[joshcryer]

2. +1 for Soylent Green reference.

:D

[Forkboy]

3. Might as well put the dead to some good use!

:hide:

[formercia]

4. That's why the PTB has been fattening us up with junk food.

Walking Carbon sinks. They give us phony money, we buy phony food and they get to sell our real calories on the free market.

:rofl:

It's either that or make soap.

[Forkboy]

5. I knew it!

:rofl:

[Kennah]

7. Pay no attention to that Baby Ruth bar floating by

[struggle4progress]

12. Well, OK ... just as long as it doesn't keep them from voting

:shrug:

[Kennah]

6. Pool heated by human emissions. Hmmmm.

I did that a lot as a kid.

[patrice]

8. Boomers beware! ;-)

;-)

[NNadir]

9. Love it. n/t

[Nihil]

10. Smart move!

The only downside of the concept is that crematoria tend to be
significantly outside towns (in the UK at least) so it would only
be effective where the town boundary has "caught up" with the furnace
or where an out of town facility is close enough to benefit.

Good luck to them (and don't let them be put off by dipsticks like
that funeral director undertaker).

:thumbsup:

[Kolesar]

11. We should dump republicans and coal execs bodies into strip mines

Cheaper, low energy...

[NNadir]

13. But maybe Amory Lovins doesn't want to be cremated.

Maybe he wants to be reformed and made into hydrogen for the hydrogen HYPErcar.