I mean honestly why not?
this post was submitted on 11 Mar 2025
124 points (99.2% liked)
Not The Onion
14623 readers
2662 users here now
Welcome
We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!
The Rules
Posts must be:
- Links to news stories from...
- ...credible sources, with...
- ...their original headlines, that...
- ...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”
Comments must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.
And that’s basically it!
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Ghosts?
Ghosts who are just gonna flicker the lights and tv anyway wasting the electricity it saves...
Turn the crematorium up hot enough to burn the ghosts
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.
Well my grandma liked to say waste not, want not. Not much different than heating with dead dinosaurs I guess.
Respectfully, I have to know: was your grandma an actual dinosaur...? Because now I'm jealous.
Not quite, but they did live through the great depression in the early 1900s, so things like keeping a box of buttons to fix your shirts and a basement full of canned anything on sale where pretty standard.
But seriously, as cool as a Grandma T-Rex would have been, my grandparents were awesome in their own rights. They also saved so many things...
Feeling grandma's warmth one last time
if they already have a local central heating system (extremely cool, never heard of that before), then why the heck not?
super common in Sweden.
there are central heating plants that supply heat for whole communities.
These seem to be everywhere in Finland too.
Guys, the fuel is gas.
The bodies aren't used for fuel like sticks or coal.
The gas is ignited, which burns the bodies.
What if they are running out of supplies?
Mine the graveyards for more.
There's no reason to believe we will ever run out of long dead bodies buried underground that we can burn for fuel.
Ah just like how Egyptians used mummies for kindling. All that's missing is some snake oil salesman peddling tinctures made of these corpses as a cure to measles or something.
Not so loud! RFK Jr will hear you!
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.
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.
Crematoriums don’t use the body as fuel. They burn way hotter. Otherwise you wouldn’t have everything becoming ash.
Manufacture more feedstock…