Posted on 02/24/2012 7:00:13 AM PST by MNDude
Sir George Young, leader of the House of Commons, said the proposal to warm a Worcestershire leisure centre with heat from a nearby crematorium was a “groundbreaking scheme”.
He said the Government is considering whether the plan could be duplicated elsewhere in Britain.
“The Government is aware of this particular scheme,” he said. “The Department for Energy and Climate Change will shortly be publishing its heat strategy and this will explore the potential for better recovery and reuse of wasted heat in schemes such as this one.”
He added that he would “die a happier man” if he knew heat from his cremation was warming the waters of a local pool.
Redditch Borough Council will be the first authority in the country to use a crematorium to heat a swimming pool. Work has already begun on the project, which is expected to be completed this spring. Since the plans were approved in February last year, they have won an award from the Green Organisation.
Currently, heat from the incinerators at crematoria - which reach 800 degrees C (1,472F) - is lost into the atmosphere.
Karen Lumley, the Conservative MP for Redditch, had raised the plan as an example of an “innovative scheme which could save £14,500 a year to the taxpayer by heat not being put out into the atmosphere”.
Unison, the trade union, has previously described the cost-saving proposals as "sick and an insult to local residents".
However, the scheme is pushing ahead to will link the crematorium with the Abbey Stadium Leisure Centre.
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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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