They’ll pry my ashes out of my cold, dead… oh, wait…
Since it takes two to four hours at temperatures ranging from 1,400 and 2,100 F, or 760 and 1,150 C, the estimated energy required to cremate one body is roughly equal to the amount of fuel required to drive 4,800 miles, or 7,725 kilometers.
Greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxide are spewed in large volume, along with carbon monoxide, sulphur dioxide, hydrogen chloride, hydrogen fluoride, particulate matter, heavy metals, dioxins and furans.
There is also release of cadmium and lead from pacemakers and mercury from dental amalgams. Total mercury emissions from cremation in Canada for 2004 were between 240 and 907 pounds, or 109 and 411.6 kilograms.
| !!! Think of all that toxic mercury going to waste, when it could be captured and recycled into environmentally-friendly compact fluorescents! |  |
Meanwhile, some funeral providers are providing natural burials — the body is not embalmed or cremated, but instead buried in a simple casket or shroud in protected green space.
There’s a real opportunity here to dovetail the assisted suicide movement into the carbon footprint reduction trade – “Be Your Own Carbon Credit”.
Spend as much time flying the friendly skies as you like, so long as you show up a few years early for your scheduled topple into the moist, warm pit of fellow travellers.
(Flashback – Or carbon-sequester a friend!)
The great recycling ideas keep pouring in From the comments “Here’s an idea — instead of wasting valuable resources throwing eco-criminals in jail, as Doktor Suzuki advises, why don’t we turn them into something useful, like soap, or lamp shades?”
Let your death brighten a room and provide the warm ambience, too!
“Since it takes two to four hours at temperatures ranging from 1,400 and 2,100 F, or 760 and 1,150 C, the estimated energy required to cremate one body is roughly equal to the amount of fuel required to drive 4,800 miles, or 7,725 kilometers.”
Strange, in many parts of Asia the funeral pyre, consisting of sticks and a squirt of kerosene, appears to be the traditional thing.
Has anyone done an analysis of the chemicals released when a body is left to decay, unmolested?
Maybe we should all be stashed in Tupperware containers and jettisoned into space…
Perhaps we should recycle the people in a green way, you know, burn them in a incinerator that produces surplus heat and use that heat to stay warm in the winter.
We could each install one in our homes and whenever a gov’t official, enviro-nut, politician, junk-mailer, or JW comes around we could legally through them in the burner.
Less of them & more energy: everybody wins.
Back to reality though, just what are we supposed to do with dead people now.
We can’t burn’em now, can’t bury them (causes it apparently uses up too much good land), can’t eat’em (soylent green tastes funny without Heinz), so WHAT do we do?
Typical enviro BS – the sky is always falling in some form or shape and they never have a realistic solution.
Just a thought abought CFLs… Are not fluorescent bulbs hard on the old eyeballs? If memory serves, fluorescents work by utilizing AC power which has a frequency of 60Hz (cycles per second). This means the light is on and off 120 times a second (a single AC sine wave goes off, to positive 110, off, to negative 110 and then repeats the cycle). All the old style flourecents were very hard on my eyes… are the new ones any different?
All dental amalgam and gold should be removed from corpses for RECYCLING!!!
I have my grandma’s gold from her teeth, I am just trying to figure out how to recycle her bridge.
Mercury amalgam is so passe, go for the GOLD!!
When is the next Olympics for which they need gold medals?
Cheers
But when you decay co2 is released, I want to be wrapped up in a garbage bag with duct tape.
This is like perpentuum mobile in money making without any actual created value.
Incandescent lighting takes more energy than the fluorescent bulbs.
On the other hand the fluorescent takes a whole lot more to make.
Of course then there is the mercury.
I was curious when some environmentalist wacko will come up with an argument against those fluorescent bulbs. So far not much, up to now they are on the trip that it takes less energy to light the house.
A few days ago on radio they were talking about how California is getting the industry on disposal going, of course that is going to cost millions of dollars.
So, you have the expensive manufacturing with poisonous substance and then you have the life of it that is inexpensive, then you have the disposal that may (likely) or may not be more expensive than the manufacture.
Disposal takes on the user being conscious about taking the thing to a collection point rather than throwing it in the garbage, then it has to be taken to the recycling facility that has to be built, then the mercury has to be extracted and the rest will probably be taken to the dump.
So we have a whole new industry very, very expensive for the disposal and recycling of the thing because of mercury.
Where is the created material value other that form Gore LLC.
That should read ‘for Gore LLC’
I am going to use my ashes as a traction provider.
When my kid slides off into the ditch in winter and is spinning her wheels trying to get out – it’s Dad to the rescue!
Simply shake out my ashes and ground up bones into the wheel ruts and – presto! – instant traction! Thanks again Dad!
And when the kid is long gone and the winter turns to spring, my ashes will provide much needed nutrients to the weeds that otherwise might not grow in the fragile ecosystem of the highway ditch!
David Soozookee can go suck a fart next time he accuses me of environmental un-niceness!
😉
Hey Sam, the incandescent bulb and everything else in your house runs on AC unless you use the batteries.
You can see the 60 Hz when you put your hand out and spread your fingers, then move your hand from side to side with your eyes on on one spot, don’t follow your hand, you will see the frequency, the blank spots in the light.
There is a simple ecologically friendly solution – “Soylent Green”.
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=ghXf1qjEkWY
Sam23: I have more than a dozen CFLs in the house and they are really no different to look at than incandescent bulbs. Just make sure you don’t buy the “cool white” ones which look like crap.
More Soylent Green, Charlton Heston’s most memorable line: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sp-VFBbjpE
CFLs are just a fad. You know those blue led headlights you see in new cars will soon spread to household use.
Light that can be cold or warm tinted but is always cold in the energy sense. = TG
Hmm, maybe instead of cremation, they can grind up our cadavres and make biofuels of us all. I can’t believe people think all this stuff up.
I love this comment from the blog above.
“Is there some way to recycle our bodies for useful, non-CO2-releasing purposes? There’s a challenge!”
Here’s an idea — instead of wasting valuable resources throwing eco-criminals in jail, as Doktor Suzuki advises, why don’t we turn them into something useful, like soap, or lamp shades?
As you say, every little bit helps when it comes to producing valuable carbon credits.
I was waiting for the good Dr. Mengele Suzuki to suggest it himself
As I mentioned in the broadside I just gave those IDIOTS, the recycling system is already in place.
Dead stock rendering plants.
Conveniently located all over the country, these factories can take a dead horse (or yer momma!) and produce all manner of lovely industrial products. From fertilizer to makeup bases to glue.
Grandma can be reincarnated as the sticky bit of half a million postit notes. How proud she’d be knowing that, eh?
Meanwhile the rivers in China are running red with benzene and PCBs. Way to pick those priorities, boys.
I like the CFL idea. And you know what every lamp needs? That’s right — a lampshade.
(as noted by a completely different commenter on desmogblog.com, who has absoutely no relationship to me, *cough*cough*)
It is apparent that global warming has become a parody of itself.
These Y2KYOTO reports and the ‘not waiting for the asteroid’ pieces are leading the charge on poking sardonic fun at the idea of man-made climate change. Even more stupid is the idea that we can fix the climate by buying new light bulbs, buying a new hybrid car and of course paying a hell of lot more tax.
I suggest it’s the buying of so much stuff that is ramping up production in factories that do all the polluting for us.
Paying more tax only encourages governments to spend more money flying around and funding projects that of course, cause more pollution.
Best solution, mass suicide at sea where are bodies will quickly be eaten by sharks and other life forms.
I think that beats waiting for the forces of Gaia to put us back in caves and tents where we can spend all our time making sure our waste is properly recycled followed by our mandatory healthy day hike, followed by a mandatory daily hootenanny to cheer us up before our granola dinner washed down with ground water. Then to save power we can all go to sleep at sundown and up at dawn where we then recycle the previous day.
Yes, the new environmentally collective sounds just splendid. At least in the old Soviet collective there was lots of vodka.
If your life’s work belongs to the state, then why not your dead body? In some cases, as we have seen, they have been used for poltical party leadership electoral purposes. Now that’s recycling!
Will the oil lamps of the our post-Kyoto future bring new meaning to the phrase “reading with Grandma”?
Liposuction – a brilliant idea! Maybe I should get a trade mark on the environmentally responsible “Sell-U-Lite”.
python recycling.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce0UEb05DXI
Collect bodies in the desert and allow them to dehydrate and crumble to dust. If there is a pandemic (very likely with current illegal immigration policies) and many bodies accumulate in a short period of time – drop one small tactical nuke and vaporize…….Simple no?
Collect bodies in the desert and allow them to dehydrate and crumble to dust. If there is a pandemic (very likely with current illegal immigration policies) and many bodies accumulate in a short period of time – drop one small tactical nuke and vaporize…….Simple no?
A funeral pyre is merely a bad sunburn compared to cremation.
“the estimated energy required to cremate one body is roughly equal to the amount of fuel required to drive 4,800 miles”
This doesn’t pass the smell test (no joke intended). That seems like an awful lot of energy to cook one corpse. Notice the word “estimated”. There should be no estimation required, since there is all kinds of real world experience to draw from.
Related – just heard Stephen Lewis on CKNW with Bill Good. Lewis states that the “dye is cast” for climate change, based on past emissions, until 2030. What dye is he referring to? What warming is he referring to?
Then he says we have until 2050 to bring the “big polluters” on line. Who are these “big polluters?” Apparently, China, USA and CANADA. Canada? You’ve got to be kidding. Canada is 2% of worldwide emissions.
More nonsense from the AGW crowd.
Oh so now Stephen Lewis is an expert on global warming. What a joke….AGW isn’t the least bit about global warming or science…it is about the UN trying to expand its role as world government and the socialists are all for it. Pure unadulterated crap.
Just when you think it could not get more ridiculous…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promession
“Promession is an ecologically-conscious method for disposing of human remains by freeze drying. It was invented and patented in 1999 by the Swedish biologist Susanne Wiigh-Mäsak.
The method is based on three steps:
Reducing the body of the deceased to a fine powder, thereby allowing subsequent decomposition to be aerobic. This is achieved by submerging the body in liquid nitrogen, making the remains so brittle that they shatter into a powder as the result of slight vibrations. The powder is then dried, reducing the deceased remains to around 30% of their original body weight.
Removing and recycling metals within the powedered remains.
Shallow-burying the powder in a biodegradable casket.
The first facilities for promession-based funerals, known as Promators, are due to be ready in 2008. They will be located in Sweden, Germany, Great Britain, South Korea and South Africa.[citation needed]
The volume of remains left by this procedure is about three times that left by a cremation, but the advantages claimed include avoiding the release of pollutants into the atmosphere (for instance, mercury vapour from dental fillings) and the rapid degradation of the remains after the procedure (within 6 to 12 months). The procedure meets the requirements of new European Union pollution laws.”
Q: What do you get when you bury a hippy envirowennie alive?
A: A carbon sink
Actually, we could feed a lot of polar bears.
Tenebris
cool. I recommend we try it on fruit fly first. Then the goracle. If this works on a fat, bloated windbag like the goracle it will work on anyone.
Tenebris, future archaeologists will be confused by the sudden absence of human remains in Europe. They may conclude the entire continent went mad and ate them. This may not be far from the truth.
By the way, how many BTUs does it take to make a liter of liquid nitrogen? Greenies always seem to forget that part. And the keeping it liquid, and the insulation on the freezer, etc. etc. etc.
I’m just surprised none of the bastards have suggested the rendering plant. I say it as satire, but I just know some of these diseased minds are thinking about it.
So, take the middle number and assume 600# of mercury … for all of Canada, for the year.
Who the hell cares?
I don’t care anymore. I don’t go out of my way to recycle and the worse these people get, the more obstinate I’m going to be.
I’m going to take the dog for a car ride to Tim Horton’s, just because.
(She does like Timbits.)
Can’t we just send everyone to the Sentate?
bury envirofreeks ass up and park your bike.
stain a hairy envirodorkkk and mop your floor.
“the estimated energy required to cremate one body is roughly equal to the amount of fuel required to drive 4,800 miles”
“Oh My, what a waste”
“How many miles to just warm him up and put some grill marks on him?”
“People, It’s what’s for Dinner”
]If only the masses could understand the science of global warming, they’d be alarmed, right? Wrong, according to the surprising results of a survey of Americans published in the journal Risk Analysis by researchers at Texas A&M University.
After asking a national sample of more than 1,000 Americans how much they knew about global warming and how they felt about it, the researchers report that respondents who are better-informed about global warming “both feel less personally responsible for global warming, and also show less concern for global warming.”] The Weekly Standard
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2008/02/global_warming_the_more_you_kn.asp
Its too bad not everyone is “self burying” like the Goracle. At the height of rigor mortis you simply stand him on end and give him a good spin. He’s so crooked he will screw himself into the ground.
the new enviro-laws(don’t bet against it!)will charge your next of kin for burdening the karbonk ideal, or some fucking thing, and 60 days in jail with a fine, as the greendeath squads peer in the hospitals for business,
The correct thing to do would be to feed the wood chipper …. use the mulch to fertilize tomatoes….
I would like to offer to personally do the deed to Suzuki and to Gore.
At first I wasn’t all that impressed at being directed to Suckzookie’s site. But I have to give desmogguys’n’gals some credit; they are letting some pretty good comments stand. Some poster named Rob was suggesting that one of the gaia friendly posters should want to leave his own corpse out for the buzzards.
We could process fat tissue and use it in lava lamps and for sale at our local food co-op in natural soaps. Then I think “Shaken” has the right idea — use the rest to feed polar bears. Go Green! BWWWAHAHAHAAA!!!!
I have tried reading with CFL light and it is hard on my eyes.
Lev – Not everything in the house that is plugged in runs on AC… that computer you use has a power supply that converts AC to direct current. And you can not “see” 60 Hz… it is too fast for the human eye to view.
Shaken”Actually, we could feed a lot of polar bears.”
You are a hard person … what about the mercury poisoning?
Chip the teeth out with a hammer……..They’re dead anyway, right?
Sam23 ” … Not everything in the house that is plugged in runs on AC… that computer you use has a power supply that converts AC to direct current … ”
Are you saying that the monitors … the stuff you are looking at … operate the same way as the computers?
someone suggested mass suicide at sea. burial at sea is not a bad idea.
Hey ural… The old CRT monitors used a combination of AC and DC. The new plasma and LCD use just DC to the best of my knowledge (I could be wrong… I have had a LCD monitor open to test the power supply; only measured DC voltages.)
GO GREEN GO BROKE paying for all those rediculous ideas put forth by the green nuts and their crazy notions
Stick AL GORES and DAVID SUZUKIS fingers in light sockets and LIGHT UP THEIR LIVES