Is this Swedish town that's routing heat from its crematorium to local homes morbid or brilliant? Let's just call them brilliantly morbid.
Posted on 12/31/2008 1:24:33 PM PST by MyTwoCopperCoins
Is this Swedish town that's routing heat from its crematorium to local homes morbid or brilliant? Let's just call them brilliantly morbid.
The town of Halmstad came up with the idea when trying to curb the amount of smoke emitted from the crematorium.
It was when we were discussing all these environmental issues that we started thinking about the energy that is used in the cremations and realised that instead of all that heat just going up into the air, we could make use of it somehow. It was just rising into the skies for nothing," said Lennart Andersson, the director of the cemetery in the town of Halmstad.
It might sound kind of gross, but if you were suddenly having your house heated for free this winter I don't think you'd complain that much.
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Next up for the ovens...undesirables....
*smirk*
So, even after Uncle Miltie has passed on, he STILL smells.
ARE there THAT many cremations going on there?.....weird.
Soylent Heat is People!
“...morbid or brilliant? Let’s just call them brilliantly morbid.”
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Let’s not.
It is just morbid.
With that ice cold, socialistic, crassly utilitarian view of human life.
LOL!
Once did a small survey in this town and discovered a dozen crematoria furnaces. We’re looking at -50 this weekend and it brings the poem of Sam MacGee to mind.
Brrrr Honey going to be cold tonight hows your mother doing???
Stole the idea from Nazis.
I’d sooner freeze.
wow creepy,how many cremations a day to heat a town?
City of 55,000+. Maybe it’s their demographic winter.
And if you’re not cremated, those ingenious Swedes will throw you on the compost heap.
couple of those should keep me warm enough...
What happens when they run short of fuel, like Sweeney Todd’s wife ran short of meat for her pies?
LOL, now with more girls, it’s too bad the Simpsons have to be so blasphemous.
How swede it is...
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