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Burning deceased humans will produce electricity - 12/2/2011 3:46:48 PM   
LillyBoPeep


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Status: offline 		Turbines at crematorium will convert heat into as much as 150 kilowatt-hours per corpse

"In Durham, England, corpses will soon be used to generate electricity.

A crematorium is installing turbines in its burners that will convert waste heat from the combustion of each corpse into as much as 150 kilowatt-hours of juice — enough to power 1,500 televisions for an hour. The facility plans to sell the electricity to local power companies.

Some might find this concept creepy. Others might be pleased to learn that the process "makes cremation much greener by utilizing its by-products," in the words of cremation engineer Steve Looker, owner and chief executive officer of the Florida-based company B&L Cremation Systems, which is unaffiliated with the Durham enterprise.

In Europe, tightening regulations on crematorium emissions, coupled with the high price of energy, will lead more and more facilities to go the way of Durham in the future, Looker said. Will crematories in the United States follow suit? "

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RE: Burning deceased humans will produce electricity - 12/2/2011 3:52:47 PM   
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Status: offline 		I think it's an ingenious idea. Why waste all that energy when it can be put to good use? I have no desire to be cremated but if I did then I would find this to be a great idea, that my disposal can actually help to bring energy to others.

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RE: Burning deceased humans will produce electricity - 12/2/2011 3:56:52 PM   
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Status: offline 		It certainly gives a bit of new meaning to the song "YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE....."

It may also mean larger people will have larger carbon footprints :).....but it makes sense really. The cremation process is going to create heat anyway....so why not recover it and use it in a positive way?  Should not affect the actual remains much....though it is going to be hard to come up with enough corpses to make any sort of real impact on the grid. There is a bit of "Soylent Green" to it....

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RE: Burning deceased humans will produce electricity - 12/2/2011 3:59:33 PM   
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Status: offline 		Its a great idea. Its one way of giving back to what a person consumed while alive.

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RE: Burning deceased humans will produce electricity - 12/2/2011 4:44:32 PM   
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Status: offline 		Necessity is the mother of invention, they say.
I think it's a great idea to recapture energy that's otherwise lost.

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RE: Burning deceased humans will produce electricity - 12/2/2011 5:19:10 PM   
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RE: Burning deceased humans will produce electricity - 12/2/2011 5:40:21 PM   
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RE: Burning deceased humans will produce electricity - 12/2/2011 5:41:46 PM   
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Status: offline 		I like It. I am planning to donate my body to science, so it wouldn't apply to me, but i am all for it anyway.

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RE: Burning deceased humans will produce electricity - 12/2/2011 9:35:35 PM   
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Status: offline 		So YOU won't be burned but you are all for it. Mmmm hmmm, we got your number.

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RE: Burning deceased humans will produce electricity - 12/2/2011 9:38:45 PM   
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RE: Burning deceased humans will produce electricity - 12/2/2011 9:42:47 PM   
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Status: offline 		Read edit - this could be soylentricity !

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RE: Burning deceased humans will produce electricity - 12/2/2011 9:57:09 PM   
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Status: offline 		.. ewwww.. i think that is sorta gross.. for some reason it just reminds me of the holocaust..
yes i know its totally different but that is just what comes to my mind.. and no it doesnt make sense since i expect to be cremated.. i guess this is just one of those rare occasions where i am "inconsistent" in my thoughts/opinions...

I wonder if the clients get a discount of some sort for the value of the energy they produce.. I would hope they would.. or maybe a free urn or something..

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RE: Burning deceased humans will produce electricity - 12/3/2011 4:58:07 AM   
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RE: Burning deceased humans will produce electricity - 12/3/2011 6:15:09 AM   
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RE: Burning deceased humans will produce electricity - 12/3/2011 6:20:03 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hahaha agirl :)

tj444- that's a good question; I think since the turbine is just generally installed, though, that it will just become part of the process. the only "opt-out" would just be to choose not to be cremated. Though maybe the process will lower the cost of cremations in general?

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RE: Burning deceased humans will produce electricity - 12/3/2011 6:22:20 AM   
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RE: Burning deceased humans will produce electricity - 12/3/2011 6:26:39 AM   
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Status: offline 		becoming energy isnt the same as becoming food, for me it wouldbe a definite possibility
I get the soylent green and holocaust analogies, but as long as they dont thhow in live peeps or have peeps gong around killing thehomeless for a refill, or sell em off as barbecue pulled pork*or similar* i'd go for it

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RE: Burning deceased humans will produce electricity - 12/3/2011 6:31:13 AM   
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Status: offline 		I have to say, Termy's "soylentricity" has a nice ring to it (what? It does!), but recapturing otherwise lost energy and turning people into food product, those are wildly different things.

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RE: Burning deceased humans will produce electricity - 12/3/2011 6:38:53 AM   
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Termy comes up with some good stuff:)

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RE: Burning deceased humans will produce electricity - 12/3/2011 3:31:25 PM   
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Status: offline 		Soylentricity,
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You indeed could be spinning,
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