Plan to use crematorium to heat swimming pool

[Spudders]

I really don't understand why some people have a problem with this. I understand that death is a touchy subject for some, but really, when you actually think about this rationally, what is the problem?

 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-world/2011/01/25/plan-to-use-crematorium-to-heat-swimming-pool-is-branded-sick-115875-22873739/

 

 

UNDERTAKERS have branded plans to use heat from a crematorium to warm a swimming pool as “sick”.

 

Bathers will be splashing around in hot water created by cremations, saving more than £14,000 a year in heating bills, if they go ahead.

 

The council in Redditch, Worcs – which would be the first to adopt the idea – argues it is an eco-friendly and money-saving way of warming the pool at the Abbey Stadium.

 

But funeral director Simon Thomas said yesterday: “I don’t know how comfortable people would feel about the swimming pool being heated due to the death of a loved one. I think it’s a bit eerie.

 

“Trying to save money due to the death of someone’s family member or friend is a bit sick.

 

“It will cause uproar and may even put people off using the facilities. It just doesn’t feel right.”

 

 

The scheme would harness the left-over heat when the gas within the cremators is cooled down from about 800 degrees to 150 degrees.

 

Council leader Carole Gandy said she understood that some people would be uncomfortable with the idea but urged them to consider it properly. “I’d much rather use the energy than just see it going out of the chimney and heating the sky,” she said.

 

“It will make no difference to the people who are using the crematorium for services. I recognise that some people might not like it, but if they don’t, they don’t have to use our crematorium.”

 

Gordon Hull, from the Federation of Burial and Cremation Authorities, said he was aware of numerous councils across the country which had looked at reclaiming waste heat from the cremators.

 

He said: “From an environmental view it makes sense. You don’t need to use a separate boiler because of the amount of waste heat which is created from the process.”

[dune]

I don't see the problem. Recycling steam is now happening in industry to cut waste.

[Minty]

Makes perfect sense.

 

As for 'Trying to save money due to the death of someone's family member'... that's just plain wrong. It's a simple sharing of resources. You have a heat source, so if it's viable, why not use it for two different things?

[buctootim]

Gas is just made up of decomposed animal and plant matter anyway. That doesn't seem to cause people problems.

[Smirking_Saint]

Typically people want cheap green electricity or energy but generally dislike every way into which it can be created.

[scotty]

^^^ you lot obviously think its ok but let me tell you this suggestion makes my blood boil. Burns me up in fact.

[buctootim]

^^^ you lot obviously think its ok but let me tell you this suggestion makes my blood boil. Burns me up in fact.

 

Go for a swim. That'll cool you down.

[scotty]

Go for a swim. That'll cool you down.

 

 

lol

 

perhaps I'll just have a smoke instead

[Dimond Geezer]

Seems like a sensible use of resources to me. Once we've heated the pool can we dig the ashes into my garden, they'll work wonders on my roses

[latter day saint]

isn't the majority of the heat generated by the ovens attaining a sufficient heat to cremate the remains,rather than the burning body/coffin?

[scotty]

Whenever I hear the Ramones "I wanna be sedated".......

 

 

(fill in punchline here)

[EastleighSoulBoy]

I don't see the problem. Recycling steam is now happening in industry to cut waste.

 

It's a practice that has been happening for years, long before the various debates about conserving energy or climate problems.

 

http://www.spiraxsarco.com/uk/products-services/applications-overview.asp

 

Search for Hotwells and Blowdown return vessels.

[dune]

It's a practice that has been happening for years, long before the various debates about conserving energy or climate problems.

 

http://www.spiraxsarco.com/uk/products-services/applications-overview.asp

 

Search for Hotwells and Blowdown return vessels.

 

I think it's only recently though that firms have been given tax breaks to install ERS systems and other "green" initiatives such as wind turbines.

[Lighthouse]

I just want to here some bloke shouting, "it's too cold in the deep end, get more corpses!"

[scotty]

I just want to here some bloke shouting, "it's too cold in the deep end, get more corpses!"

 

dead funny, that