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UK: Crematorium to heat water for town's swimmers
Reuters.com ^
| 2/8/11
| Michael Holden
Posted on 02/08/2011 10:08:14 AM PST by NormsRevenge
(Reuters) - A local authority in England has given the go ahead for a swimming pool to use energy created by the next-door crematorium to heat its water.
The plan, the first of its kind in Britain, will see waste heat from the incinerator chimney used to warm up the neighboring leisure center and its new pool.
"The cremation process is a sensitive matter and we wanted to be sure our proposals had widespread support," said Councilor Carole Gandy, the leader of Redditch Borough Council in central England.
Eighty to 90 percent of people who contacted the council had backed the scheme, she said.
"Throughout we have been careful to explain how the technology would work, that it is tried and trusted, and that the practice is quite common in parts of Europe and especially in Sweden," she said.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; United Kingdom; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: crematorium; swimmers
Quite common in Sweden and parts of EUrope...
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
02/08/2011 10:13:51 AM PST
by
crosshairs
(The word for actor in Greek is hypocrite (its true).)
To: NormsRevenge
Ashes to ashes, and all that stuff.....
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posted on
02/08/2011 10:14:30 AM PST
by
ThirdMate
To: NormsRevenge
Gives a whole new meaning to the term dead pool.
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posted on
02/08/2011 10:14:43 AM PST
by
Free Vulcan
(Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead.)
To: NormsRevenge
Hey, over there in crematorium! The water in the pool is getting colder!
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posted on
02/08/2011 10:15:43 AM PST
by
alecqss
To: NormsRevenge
That is SOO wrong for so many reasons.
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posted on
02/08/2011 10:19:06 AM PST
by
MNDude
To: NormsRevenge
This guy could have turned that pool into a sauna...
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posted on
02/08/2011 10:25:40 AM PST
by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: MNDude
—and a couple of them are-————?
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posted on
02/08/2011 10:26:19 AM PST
by
rellimpank
(--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
02/08/2011 10:31:02 AM PST
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("The time will come when Winter will ask you what you were doing all Summer" -- Henry Clay)
To: Opinionated Blowhard
Muslims will run the crematorium to burn the bodies from honor killings and dead as the result of National Health Service “mistakes.”
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posted on
02/08/2011 10:34:20 AM PST
by
MasterGunner01
(To err is human; to forgive is not our policy. -- SEAL Team SIX)
To: NormsRevenge
Uncle Miltie was always a troublemaker.
Till Father Time ended his skit.
He used to like being in hot water.
Now he’s just heating it.
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posted on
02/08/2011 10:41:37 AM PST
by
reagan_fanatic
(Keep your stinking paws off my wallet, you damn dirty politician!)
To: reagan_fanatic; Uncle Miltie
Uncle Miltie was always a troublemaker.
Till Father Time ended his skit.
He used to like being in hot water.
Now he’s just heating it. Great poem! Does Uncle Miltie know he's now been, er, immortalized?
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posted on
02/08/2011 10:45:26 AM PST
by
Nervous Tick
(Trust in God, but row away from the rocks!)
To: NormsRevenge
Warm water...
IS People!
(note: that water better not have a green tinge)
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posted on
02/08/2011 10:50:07 AM PST
by
C210N
(0bama, Making the US safe for Global Marxism)
To: Free Vulcan
To: NormsRevenge
I work in Redditch, although I have never used this pool. Would have no problems doing so, though.
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posted on
02/08/2011 11:59:43 AM PST
by
Mitch86
To: rellimpank
it’s wrong for kind of the same reason why it’d be wrong to make lampshades from human skin, except this is perhaps a little less reverent.
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posted on
02/08/2011 12:20:34 PM PST
by
MNDude
To: NormsRevenge
Such remarkable reverence for a society’s dearly departed.
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