People Power: Dead Swedes provide home heating for alive Swedes

[DeSwiss]

RT ·Published on Apr 14, 2014

A crematorium in Stockholm is helping people in the city keep warm - by burning dead residents. Environmentalists hail it as a progressive way of generating energy. And as RT's Paul Scott reports, the idea is catching on.

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- I'm sure Americans would have a much higher BTU output. USA! USA! USA! YAY for the Power of the People!!!

[yuiyoshida]

1. I am sorry...

That just seems creepy to me.

[DeSwiss]

5. Pretty much everything we ever experience.....

...that we never saw or heard of before, is either Amazing!, Weird, or CREEPY!

- Kinda like Chittlins.....

[center]To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution

~Hamlet 3, 1

[/center]

[TreasonousBastard]

3. This makes no sense...

Cremations use intense heat to burn the corpse, and don't just light a match to it. The corpse doesn't create heat-- it absorbs heat. Kinda like baking.

Now, since the heat is generated anyway, using the waste heat for other purposes makes sense; but a simple furnace is actually more efficient.

But, if you don't much care about how things actually work, this angle makes a mildly interesting story.

[MrMickeysMom]

11. The difference is that energy ALREADY used for this business's task...

… now recycles the energy normally taken back to the public energy grid.

That's all.

[TreasonousBastard]

12. I thought that's what I said...

What they're doing makes sense, using waste heat and all, but the story loses the science in the sensationalizing of the crematorium.

In NYC, Con Ed has been selling the steam from it's generators to heat office buildings and highrises for years. Effectively the same thing, but without corpses it's not a story.

[MrMickeysMom]

14. Okay, you've got a point, there, TB...

… I guess that fits within the mantra of what gets into the news these days. If it bleeds, it leads.

[PoliticAverse]

4. Soylent Green-Power. n/t

[Adsos Letter]

6. LOL

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

13. Same thing I thought

[geardaddy]

7. There's a much more ecological solution to using corpses.

Bios Urn
http://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-product-design/bios-urn-uses-your-ashes-grow-tree.html
Poetree
Or this one:

Although you still have to cremate the body first.

[MrMickeysMom]

15. I like it!

[Frustratedlady]

8. My father's side of the family came from Sweden.

After seeing that article, I'm glad FROM is the operative word.

What happens if the weather is extremely cold and they run out of corpses? Pick and choose the next "log" or what?

[A Simple Game]

10. I think they encourage more tourists to ski the "Devil's Drop" when they get low on fuel. n/t

[LongTomH]

9. They're simply using what would otherwise be waste heat from the natural gas flames.

There wouldn't be that many BTU's in a human body.

[KoKo]

16. Yes..it's creepy...not sure it isn't better than in a coffin under the ground doing nothing

for hundreds of years, though. For those who want to "leave some good behind" in the world as their choice...then maybe it's not a bad choice as gruesome as it sounds.