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energy?

What would the implications be if we could effectively turn our dead to electric energy? Say, for example, through the same process that biomass is currently converted to energy.

Would this be a benefit in our struggle for more energy?

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Someone had to say it..

It's a modest proposal...

Biomass would best be something humans didn't eat or use, grew fast and plentiful, and was renewable. I'm wondering sometimes why they couldn't engineer some plants for greater oil production (think diesel), and do that.

Corn lobbies are behind a lot of what we do in this...

There is a long tradition in human cultures (all of them) to respect the dead. It was an uphill fight for researchers from Leonardo DaVinci (and previous seekers after truth) to go against this tradition and dissect dead bodies to understand how we are constructed. To use human bodies as industrial material requires a major change in cultural attitudes inspite of the disdain displayed in war and totalitarian regimes for human dead. To eat the dead may be practical as in Soylent Green if the transmission of diseases can be eliminated but the ghoul is a standard horror character and cannot be psychologically dismissed. Humans already cremate their dead in an acceptable way and if cremation can somehow be connected to power creation I suppose a mythical tradition could be manufactured that the souls remain within the electrical system but it does not seem to me to be an efficient means of power production. Much more useful would be burial to fertilize the soil for future food production which is a minor variation of current procedures and a slight twist on the Soylent Green approach.

A more feasible system involves fermentation of sewage into methane, and using what is left over as a fertilizer. The technology is there, it has been done in some places. One problem is that sewer systems are open to other types of waste, and the fertilizer residue in some places would be too high in heavy metals.

I saw a documentary about trains and how they used to use mummies for fuel for a while when coal was scarce.

Soylent Green is one of my favorite movies. It reminds me of the US health care system. Sometimes I imagine that all the food additives, aluminum leached from cans, and junk food was created to cause health problems. Then I imagine that the meds are created to make money off of all of the created health problems. I know it's just my imagination but I still won't eat anything out of an aluminum can.

I would vote FOR creating technology to accommodate this type of usage of the human body at death.

I am NOT getting involved in philosophic, political, or religious views on this.

In my opinion we should bring the technology forth and add it as another option along with cremation. As cremation is pretty much the same damn thing.

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