So -- you want to help save energy, but you're dead? That's no obstacle!

[eppur_se_muova]

4. Fuel a city

Cremating a body uses up a lot of energy -- and a lot of nonrenewable resources. So how do you give Grandma the send-off she wanted and protect the planet at the same time? Multitask.

Some European crematoriums have figured out a way to replace conventional boilers by harnessing the heat produced in their fires, which can reach temperatures in excess of 1,832 degrees Fahrenheit. In fact, starting in 1997, the Swedish city of Helsingborg used local crematoriums to supply 10 percent of the heat for its homes.
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more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/04/30/dead.bodies/index.html

[islandmkl]

1. Mom, the house smells like grandpa when he was having a cigar...

[NNadir]

2. OK, but I draw the line at collecting my intestinal gases to make biogas for Maine.

[Fridays Child]

3. Okay. I'm really tired.

I read your post and was wondering what a "bioga" is and why Maine wants people to make "biogas."

I need sleep.

[Systematic Chaos]

5. It's like granola, but it's gone soft and is full of mealy bugs.

YUM!!

I hear it goes nicely with Allen's Coffee Brandy.

:evilgrin:

[Fridays Child]

6. Yikes!

:wow: :P

[FREEWILL56]

7. Bio-gas=methane. Farts if you still don't get it.

[Fridays Child]

9. Had to do a double take, at first...

...but I got it, after that. :hi:

[phantom power]

4. Actually, being dead is the best way to save energy there is...

Sadly, it's also probably going to be the leading form of demand destruction over the next century.

[Dead_Parrot]

11. Plus, the whole family can join in!

Watch the smiles of happiness on your kid's faces as they save energy!

(Or is that rictus of rigour mortis? I forget.)

[losthills]

8. I wanna be vitrified and dumped in the deep ocean.

I hear that's the ticket....

[Dead_Parrot]

10. It can be arranged....

...you wanna die first?

:evilgrin: