Sir George Young, leader of the House of Commons, said the proposal to warm a Worcestershire leisure centre with heat from a nearby crematorium was a “groundbreaking scheme”.
He said the Government is considering whether the plan could be duplicated elsewhere in Britain.
Via Drudge.
(Related! update via Kathy Shaidle.)
Soylent Green not far behind.
Great idea! Now, how to find enough people to burn?
Soylent corpse.
Ken Kulak
I was just thinking the same thing.
When they start killing off the old folk it will indeed be Soylent Green Energy.
While anything to do with death, dignity for the remains of the dead….is an emotional issue….
Get a grip…this not camparable to soylent green….or converting human remains to automotive fuel.
It is a logical use of waste heat.
I have often mused about the wasted heat from lime/cement kilns is just sent up the stacks to no benefit.
The main feature of modern NG furnaces is that the vents waste so little energy that they can be made of PVC….
I have lately been watching videos of Steam locomotives in action…..generally made during cool/cold weather….the smoke plumes are spectacular….due to the steam jet in the stack which causes the forced draft. However, those locomotives convert a higher % of the energy of the fuel than their diesel replacements…..but boy do they look wasteful.
This is done perhaps for the same reason no pics/videos are ever presented of the OIL SANDS in warm weather….and smoke plumes get photo-shopped on long defunct power plant chimneys.
The con-artists who pushed ‘green energy’ may be heating that pool themselves after the duped read their portfolio statements.
The plunge in pure-play green-tech stocks:
Company Country Sector Symbol Exchange Price (Feb. 23) Change since January, 2008
Suntech Power China Solar panels STP NYSE $3.23 (U.S.) -96%
JA Solar China Solar cells JASO Nasdaq $1.94 -92%
First Solar U.S. Solar modules FSLR Nasdaq $37.20 -86%
SunPower U.S. Solar panels SPWR Nasdaq $7.91 -94%
Q-Cells Germany Solar cells QCE Frankfurt €0.32 -99%
Renewable Energy Norway Silicon REC Oslo 4.62 kroner -98%
Vestas Wind Systems Denmark Wind turbines VWS Copenhagen 57.10 kroner -90%
Gamesa Spain Wind turbines GAM Madrid €2.67 -91%
Suzlon Energy India Wind turbines SUZL Mumbai 27.95 rupees -93%
Didn’t the Germans have something like this in the 40s? I believe they ran a pilot project in Poland.
We collect organs and tissue from corpses (at least I hope they ARE corpses). I don’t think collecting the waste heat from crematoria is disrespectful or the thin edge of the wedge. I know that the image it evokes is horrendous, but this not the same thing as the ovens in Belsen.
Now, how to find enough people to burn?
~dmorris
No problem, build more garbage incinerators and solve the landfill problem at the same time.
We collect organs and tissue from corpses (at least I hope they ARE corpses).
~rita
Yup except in China, they’re corpses by the time they cannibalize them.
That’s why my driver’s licence specifies I’m not to be cannibalized, NOT A DONOR.
(good thing I’m not some orphan boy in Rio de Janeiro)
I wouldn’t want to go into the hospital for a “routine” procedure( with a Yes Donor Card) and inexplicably not survive it just because my tissue type matches some Elite prospective recipient’s.
Oz is right. I won’t fill out a doner card, because I don’t trust ANYONE, who gets my tax dollars anymore. Sad state of affairs.
It takes a huge amount of energy to cremate a human body. You have to boil off all the water content before the organic material begins to burn.
So the lion’s share of that waste heat comes from the natural gas used to fire the crematory ovens.
From an energy standpoint, it makes a lot more sense to bury dead humans. Couple of pints of Diesel fuel through a backhoe, and the job’s done.
Lets do the Ghoul-land tango.
Next it will making bars of soap from excess fat. Pillows form human hair.
There must be some old Nazis left from Auschwitz that can help calibrate the system.
No wonder they call it “Woostershire” – Bertie’s in charge.
Well, you know folks are always dying to help with these things any way they can…
It is because of this detachment from human empathy and all the grotesque “solutions” that this misanthopy creates that I am now refering to these green obsessing people as “freaks”.
…..and their solutions as “creepy”.
From an energy standpoint, it makes a lot more sense to bury dead humans.
~gordinkneehill
Since there is no energy shortage, why does it make more sense to bury humans?
It generally isn’t cheaper.
(not that I’m a fan of cremation)
Oz, mostly agree. There certainly isn’t a real energy shortage. But if those green freaks in the UK are making it an issue by worrying about the energy “wasted” at the crematorium, then the logical solution is not some hare-brained scheme to heat pool water with the flue gases, but to go back to simple burials.
Burials need not be expensive; it’s the funeral industry with their fancy-schmancy caskets and what-not that make it so. And land scarcity in desirable cemetery plots, too. Both issues have ready-made solutions.
And land scarcity in desirable cemetery plots, too.
~gordinkneehill
Yes, rather than plots the deceased could always be interred in crypts, mausoleums, or tombs which could have multiple individual chambers.
What it comes down to, though, is Leftists devaluing the full gamut of human existence from aborting babies to begrudging proper respect for the final disposition of the vessel one lived their life in.
The descent into darkness continues.
If your green indoctrination is complete, you will be accepting of composting next.
You know, any self-respecting Greenie would get on board this ashes to energy, dust to calories wagon.
A True Believer would elbow themselves to the head of the line – perhaps even accelerate the process.
What say you, Saint David? Et tu Elizabeth?
@ coach
Yeah, I think you’re right. I believe some of my relatives contributed a couple of thousand BTU’s of heat for that effort.