The Federation of Tampere Evangelical Lutheran Parishes wants to pump excess heat from its Valtiala furnace into the local central heating system to heat homes in the town as well as in nearby Kangasala.
If the parish union and Kangasalan Lämpö reach an agreement, the crematorium’s excess heat could be warming homes in the area by next winter.
Mine the graveyards for more.
There’s no reason to believe we will ever run out of long dead bodies buried underground that we can burn for fuel.
Ah just like how Egyptians used mummies for kindling. All that’s missing is some snake oil salesman peddling tinctures made of these corpses as a cure to measles or something.
Not so loud! RFK Jr will hear you!
The human body is 70% water. The energy required to evaporate all that would wipe out anything you’d get from combusting the organic matter. And it’s not like they could leave them out back to dry out like seasoning firewood.
yeah, they’re not actually using dead bodies as a fuel source, rather they are already expending a ton of energy to burn bodies so why not capture that heat and use it for a second time to heat up the living.