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Crematorium Offers Heat to Swedish Town

Crematorium Offers Heat to Swedish Town
Everyone's looking for ways to be more efficient, which for many entails coming up with new and alternative ways to generate electricity. But, for others it means capturing something that typically goes to waste and putting it to good use. That's the case in a Swedish town, where a new crematorium is enabling those who don't want to be buried with their cell phones to help heat the town.

The cemetery was looking to get new ovens for the crematorium and began looking at plans on how to heat its own facility with them. Before long, the plan extended to include the town and now the place is hoping when the ovens come online in 2010 that the crematoriums will be able to contribute heat to the grid. It remains to be seen how much money this will save the townspeople, but hopefully it'll be enough to help them not think about where all that hot air's blowing from... [From: The Local]

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