Posted on 02/24/2012 7:00:13 AM PST by MNDude
Are the crackers ready yet?
exactly what I was thinking...Soylent Green.
2,000 years ago Europe was mostly a howling wilderness, I’m convinced that it would be better if that were so today.
Well let’s fire up the grill.
‘op in Minister, we’re ready for you!
Well let’s fire up the grill.
‘op in Minister, we’re ready for you!
Gee, what an excellent idea. Because everyone knows that there’s no better way to entice a crowd of swimmers to the pool than the knowledge that the water they’re going to be swimming in has been heated by the ashes of dead people.
As someone who swims everyday this just sounds creepy to me. If they were doing it at my pool I would prefer not to know.
"Oy, Dwight: deep end's gettin' a bit chilly. Be a good chap an' throw another 'un on!"
I can see it now, a direct correlation between the number of deaths and the cost of oil. Vagrants and street people need to be aware.
Recuperator!
Wasn’t there a pool in Poltergeist?
Yeah, but - ted kennedy could have turned it into a hot tub...
Cremation is a huge waste of fuel, taking a huge amount to incinerate a human body. Burial is wasteful of land and can pollute groundwater. The use of chemicals to dissolve bodies just creates a toxic mess.
However, there is a far cleaner alternative. It is used by natural history museums to strip animal cadavers to leave just clean bones, that can then be bleach sanitized and put on display.
It uses two kinds of insects, fly larvae, when the remains are moist, and cadaver beetles, when they are somewhat dried. The process takes a couple of weeks, and the insects used can then be disposed of as ordinary waste, or compressed into nutritional pellets for zoo animals.
If this technique was used on human cadavers, it would allow for the recovery of artificial replacement parts like pacemakers and titanium joints. The bones could then be incinerated with a fraction of the fuel, or just ground into powder after being sanitized.
Or they could even be used to make an ossuary chapel for religious observance. While initially thought of as morbid, ossuary chapels are later seen as deeply sacred places of high reverence by the faithful. No Christian ossuaries are believed to exist in the United States.
http://weburbanist.com/2009/10/30/7-wonders-of-the-undead-world-global-ossuaries/
The heat will still be lost to the atmosphere as the pool loses heat. But it is a creatively efficient use the excess heat. Creepy, but efficient.
Talk about respect for the dead. Hey buddy, you done with
your life yet? Hop on the barB, we need some heat here.
I’ll remember you on the 3rd lap. Very utilitarian.
Oh, by the way, bad lawmakers hop on first. That wouldn’t
get to committee, no way.
If the English were more serious about energy they could
use electrical cogenerators with all “oxidative reactive”
heat generators, and get electricity from their stoves,
cars, etc, and plug that into the grid.
Sounds like a plan Caligula would have thought of.
Sounds like a plan Caligula would have thought of.
¡great balls of fire!
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