{"id":5408,"date":"2012-08-02T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T13:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=5408"},"modified":"2012-08-02T02:34:46","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T06:34:46","slug":"the-economics-of-cremation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/the-economics-of-cremation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Cremation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/072812_0112_TheEconomic1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A crematorium in England is implementing a system that will allow it to harvest energy from the cremation of people, and then sell that energy back to the grid writes Natalie Wolchover. Highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A typical turbine system costs between $250,000 and $500,000.<\/li>\n<li>A single cremation can create enough energy to power 1,500 televisions for an hour.<\/li>\n<li>In Europe burners run 24 hours a day. This means that the turbine system should pay back its cost in five years.<\/li>\n<li>In the US where burials are more common, crematoriums only run eight hours a day meaning that it could take 20 years to pay back the cost.<\/li>\n<li>This means the system is unlikely to come to the US soon \u2013 but as the baby-boomers begin to die it might become economically feasible to install such systems in the states.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can find other details including precisely how much energy each cremation can generate, how it is a green technology, why it&#8217;s not just the popularity of cremation in Europe that makes it an appealing business strategy, the future of cremation in America, the potential popularity of a cheaper turbine, and what industry insiders have to say, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/45526347\/ns\/technology_and_science-science\/t\/burning-deceased-humans-will-produce-electricity\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/45526347\/ns\/technology_and_science-science\/t\/burning-deceased-humans-will-produce-electricity\/\">MSNBC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freakonomics.com\/2012\/07\/26\/freak-est-links-58\/\">Freakonomics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A crematorium in England is implementing a system that will allow it to harvest energy from the cremation of people, and then sell that energy back to the grid writes Natalie Wolchover. Highlights: A typical turbine system costs between $250,000 and $500,000. A single cremation can create enough energy to power 1,500 televisions for an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/072812_0112_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5408"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5509,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5408\/revisions\/5509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}