Posted on 12/02/2011 2:41:12 PM PST by Lazlo in PA
Durham Crematorium wants to install turbines in two of its burners, which would use the heat generated during the cremation process to provide the same amount of electricity as would power 1,500 televisions.
A third burner is to be used to provide heating for the site's chapel and its offices.
The scheme would be the first of its kind in the UK but industry experts say that it could be followed by other similar projects.
Many crematoria are currently replacing their furnaces, to meet government targets on preventing mercury emissions from escaping into the atmosphere.
Up to 16 per cent of all mercury emitted in the UK comes from crematoria because of fillings in teeth. Left unchecked, that figure is predicted to rise to 25 per cent by 2020.
The substance accumulates in the air and water and is harmful to the brain, kidneys, nervous system and unborn children. It also has an impact on the food chain, particularly when it is deposited in water and ingested by fish.
Crematoria are required to halve such emissions by next year and eliminate them altogether by the end of the decade.
Some have already fitted systems which use the heat from the burners to provide heating for their buildings, nearby offices and, in one case, a swimming pool.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Soylent green energy.
“The substance accumulates in the air and water and is harmful to the brain, kidneys, nervous system and unborn children.”
Yeah. Look what it did to the DEAD people!/s
Ridiculous..
The guy was a real live wire, may he rest in peace.
Composting is the answer. After a couple months in the garden you can pick the shiny fillings out of there and recycle them. Might even get lucky with a couple gold caps or whatnot. It’s all pretty basic WW2 German technology.
Soylindra?
Actually, it is not a bad idea to use waste heat to generate some power, if it is economically feasible.
Britain is a nation that has lost its way. The perfect example of an increasingly amoral society. The more they abandon God the more debased their nation becomes. All of Europe is headed down the same hellish path.
LOL. Yeah, the Nazis really knew how to get the most out of a corpse.
Yeah once you get past the creepy factor its just using waste heat from the burning natural gas.
This is an outrage!
The corpses are nonetheless subjects of the King and Parliament should get any money made from burning them for power...
(Charlton Heston:) “Electricity...is...PEOPLE!”
Composting is the answer. After a couple months in the garden you can pick the shiny fillings out of there and recycle them. Might even get lucky with a couple gold caps or whatnot. It’s all pretty basic WW2 German technology.
The most ecologically sound cadaver disposal is through the use of insects. This is how natural history museums clean the bones of animals that they wish to display, because such insects are very thorough.
When cadavers are moist, fly larva, maggots, are very efficient, so much so that sanitized larva are used medically to clean just the dead tissue from necrotic wounds on living people.
They would consume the bulk of the cadaver before the remainder dried out.
Once somewhat dried, there is a species of beetle, called the cadaver beetle, that takes over, leaving only clean, white bones and replacement parts. They even clean out the connecting tissue and bone marrow.
If all of this was carried out in optimal conditions, a cadaver could probably be reduced to a bare skeleton in just a few weeks. The bones then could be incinerated with just a fraction of the fuel needed for an entire cadaver.
That sounds great. Can we start with your mom or dad? Just kidding of course...trying to make a point.
Good, but would think that disposal at sea would be better.
* snort *
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