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Re: The new "Family Jewels"
« Reply #40 on: January 21, 2014, 12:13:58 PM »
Below is a link explaining how heat from burning corpses can be turned into electricity.
http://flickeringpictures.com/2009/12/11/uk-crematorium-plans-to-convert-corpses-into-electricity/

Below this is a link that may help you entice others to continue forum discussions with you.
http://www.copyblogger.com/how-to-be-interesting/

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Re: The new "Family Jewels"
« Reply #41 on: January 21, 2014, 12:23:27 PM »
How does using the heat from a burning corpse to produce electricity equal to "turning a corpse into electricity"?
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Re: The new "Family Jewels"
« Reply #42 on: January 21, 2014, 12:36:51 PM »
It seems you didn't read my second link. That may have helped you realise that this discussion is nothing to do with semantics of English and that I'd probably join a thread on that if it were interesting to me.

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« Reply #43 on: January 21, 2014, 02:24:00 PM »
Of course I didn't. tl;dr, you know.
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Re: The new "Family Jewels"
« Reply #44 on: January 23, 2014, 07:36:42 AM »
Technically, they are not turning burning bodies into electricity.  They are reclaiming some of the energy they used to turn the corps into ash.  Burning a corps is not like burning coal.  It is more like burning a steak on your stove top. 

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Re: The new "Family Jewels"
« Reply #45 on: January 23, 2014, 12:07:46 PM »
Fat people have a high calorific value.  :-B

Re: The new "Family Jewels"
« Reply #46 on: January 23, 2014, 12:20:57 PM »
It could be worse. In Vienna a crematorium uses the power to heat their offices.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/16/undertakers-cematorium-heat_n_809284.html
Another has approval to use the power to heat the local pool.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9101874/Minister-praises-plan-to-heat-swimming-pool-from-fires-of-crematorium.html

I can just see it. Mmmm, getting cold in here. Chuck another corpse on the fire.