Crematorium to Use Burning Corpses to Create Energy
Liz Klimas (http://www.theblaze.com/author/liz-klimas/) Dec 2, 2011 2:27 pm
Many industries are seeking out alternative energies to help cut costs and
emissions, and crematoriums are no different. According
to The Telegraph, crematoriums are required by U.K. regulatory agencies to
cut emissions in half by next year
(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/8917633/A-dead-heat-crematorium-to-
sell-power-for-National-Grid.html), nixing
them all together by 2020.
One crematorium is dead set on making the most of the resources available to
it to achieve these emission-cutting requirements �
literally. The Durham Crematorium wants use the heat generated by burning
corpses to spin turbines and create enough electricity
to power 1,500 televisions per cremation process, according to the Telegraph.
And it isn�t the first crematorium to take on this
efficiency endeavor. The Telegraph reports that other crematoria already have
systems in place to generate energy for heating the
building, offices and, it states in one case, a swimming pool
(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8279648/Crematorium-
heats-swimming-pool.html) at a sports
center.