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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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[–] Technus@lemmy.zip 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] MouldyCat@feddit.uk 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

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.