davidg Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 I don't know if anyone has watched "The Last Ship" but at the start of season 2 the remains of the US goverment in Baltimore were powering the town on the bodies of people they were killing in a mass euthanasia programme. Nonsense I thought. Then I was watching Newsnight on Thursday and they claimed that the average British household bins 60 quids worth of food per month including some 80 million chickens. They then cut to a new power station somewhere in the UK that runs on bodies. For example: chickens, but I thought. It could equally well run on human remains in an emergency. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 We want your carbon back, especially if you are fat? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solitaire Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 Saw a news item last week I think, where a local council swimming pool was heated via the crematorium so only one step away from that scenario. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frozen_out Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 Saw a news item last week I think, where a local council swimming pool was heated via the crematorium so only one step away from that scenario. That's a great idea. The heat would only be wastes otherwise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 That's a great idea. The heat would only be wastes otherwise. Yes it would! It is actually a good idea, although people may not like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sPinwheel Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 Soylent heating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloo Loo Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 I thought bodies were more or less inflammable...takes a huge fire to burn them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XswampyX Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 I thought bodies were more or less inflammable...takes a huge fire to burn them. Yeah, but if you are going to have the fire to burn the bodies.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bossybabe Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 Sounds great for when the crems go on strike... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidg Posted November 28, 2015 Author Share Posted November 28, 2015 I thought bodies were more or less inflammable...takes a huge fire to burn them. Exactly. That's why the news item caught my eye. The 1%ers running their heated pools on dead people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frozen_out Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 Exactly. That's why the news item caught my eye. The 1%ers running their heated pools on dead people. All depends on what your view of the worth of a dead body is. In my view the body isn't the person and there's nothing undignified about using a crematorium's waste heat. No more undignified than leaving someone to rot in the ground anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidg Posted November 28, 2015 Author Share Posted November 28, 2015 All depends on what your view of the worth of a dead body is. In my view the body isn't the person and there's nothing undignified about using a crematorium's waste heat. No more undignified than leaving someone to rot in the ground anyway. Depends how you get the bodies doesn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
200p Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 So where are all these bodies going to suddenly come from.... oopppsss.... can of worms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riedquat Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 So, a problem with power generation, and as I keep pointing out far too many people. Sounds like a match made in heaven to me! For fairness I will volunteer myself, it's not as if everyone won't continue to screw up everything that makes life worth living even if the "far too many people" part of it is gone. As long as the following list is considered... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonguest Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 I thought bodies were more or less inflammable...takes a huge fire to burn them. I guess that depends on whether the body has 'dried' a bit - since our bodies are mostly water. I would assume that after just a short period a corpse, left in the open, will be sufficiently dessicated (and also have some residual internal methane from decomposing) that it should be much easier to set alight and allow it to self burn? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saving For a Space Ship Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 Soylent heating. Soylent Green Deal it's all a bit judge Dredd Resyk again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecrashingisles Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 Surely living bodies would be able to peddle faster? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Byron Posted November 28, 2015 Share Posted November 28, 2015 Lets be clear, Inflammable and Flammable mean the same thing. They have different Latin roots and cause much confusion. That is why we now use combustible and non combustible. Human bodies are combustible, it's all the fat. Provided they are wearing clothes to act as a wick, bodies will burn totally to ash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sPinwheel Posted November 29, 2015 Share Posted November 29, 2015 Burke & Hare need you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikhail Liebenstein Posted November 29, 2015 Share Posted November 29, 2015 Probably needs fixing to a cross or hanging in a gibbet to dry out enough for fuel purposes - clearly IS are just a bunch of green fuel environmentalists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted November 29, 2015 Share Posted November 29, 2015 I've always wanted to work for Resyk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt Barlow Posted November 29, 2015 Share Posted November 29, 2015 Myself and a colleague actually proposed this at a council owned crematorium back in 2004 as a way of heating the chapel etc. The Councillors wouldn't hear anymore of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted November 29, 2015 Share Posted November 29, 2015 Myself and a colleague actually proposed this at a council owned crematorium back in 2004 as a way of heating the chapel etc. The Councillors wouldn't hear anymore of it. I don't care who gets whatever use of my used body when I have gone! Hopefully not Mr Saville! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Generation Game Posted November 29, 2015 Share Posted November 29, 2015 I thought bodies were more or less inflammable...takes a huge fire to burn them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted November 29, 2015 Share Posted November 29, 2015 I guess that depends on whether the body has 'dried' a bit - since our bodies are mostly water. I would assume that after just a short period a corpse, left in the open, will be sufficiently dessicated (and also have some residual internal methane from decomposing) that it should be much easier to set alight and allow it to self burn? You are sounding like Ken! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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