http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/10/dead-people-are-cool-crematorium-heat-powers-air-conditioning.php
Apparently the Taipei Second Funeral Parlor in Taiwan plan is now harnessing waste heat from their crematorium furnaces and running it through a heat exchanger to generate electricity to run the air-conditioning system.
The best part? It caught on. A crematorium in East Sussex started doing the same thing in December 2009:
http://flickeringpictures.com/2009/12/11/uk-crematorium-plans-to-convert-corpses-into-electricity/
Okay, granted, the specific heat of the cremations themselves isn't the ONLY heat energy being converted into electricity (there's apparently a LOT of waste heat generated by the furnace required to render Uncle Fester into a pile of ashes), but it's still an efficient concept - moreso than not doing it at all, at any rate... so why stop there? I mean... humans are living bio-electrical batteries that general quite a lot of extraneous heat and energy... but then my next question is... how far are we away from THIS?
http://yoavdembak.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/free-yourself-from-the-matrix.jpg
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