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Finnish town wants to capture cremation heat to warm homes (yle.fi)

submitted 19 hours ago by DrunkEngineer@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 64 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

I mean honestly why not?

[–] David_Eight@lemmy.world 17 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Ghosts?

[–] DogEarBookmark@reddthat.com 11 points 15 hours ago

Ghosts who are just gonna flicker the lights and tv anyway wasting the electricity it saves...

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 9 points 14 hours ago

Turn the crematorium up hot enough to burn the ghosts

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 4 points 9 hours ago

Exactly, it might sound bizarre at first but at the end of the day cremation is a massiv waste. They're actually testing boiling corpses instead of burning them to save energy so all things considered this solution might be the less strange one.