Jon Louis Mann wrote: > >> How much carbon is released into the atmosphere from a >> cremation? > > Ah, so you got the context, but you missed the irony!~) > Unfortunately I don't know the answer, but I expect it is more > energy efficient than cryonics, or to bury bodies in expensive > caskets that are not bio-degradable... > Unless you pile the bodies and burn them all in an anthropothermic power plant. Then, bodies become biofuel, which is carbon-neutral. Of course, probably it would be more efficient _not_ to burn them, but to gaseify them to syngas and then Fischer-Tropsch them to diesel (heating oil, gasoil - name varies by country).
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