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Spanish City Sets Up Solar Cemetery
A Spanish city has found an unusual place to generate renewable energy — solar panels in the cemetery. Santa Coloma de Gramanet has installed 462 solar panels over its multi-story mausoleums. The plan was met with some derision at first, but thanks to a successful marketing campaign, the solar cemetery has public support. It has been such a success that there are already plans to install more panels in an effort to triple the amount of power generated. The installation cost 720,000 euros (£608,000) but will keep about 62 tonnes of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere every year, said Esteve Serret, a director of Conste-Live Energy, the company that runs the cemetery and also works in renewable energy. I'm sure a solar powered zombie movie is already in the works.
I'm sure a solar powered zombie movie is already in the works.
Yeah, but I'm sure they'll figure out a way to incorporate the solar panels into weapons. Zombie BBQ!
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will keep about 62 tonnes of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere every year
And the residents also cut their CO2 footprint by about 2 tons per year, simply by not breathing.
I know for a fact that my grandfather who passed away recently would have paid extra to be buried in a cemetery that generates clean energy.
I for one welcome our re-animated by solar power zombie overlords!
The electricity is discharged into the ground, creating a race of supercharged resurrected beings, who inexplicably spurn the diets of their waking life, in favour for human flesh?
This sounds like the time some scientists build a black hole machine (which when is turned on properly will destroy the earth) without my permission.
They're also working on powering generators with energy from angry poltergeists and other such ghosts who are angry over the modifications to their resting place. That's right, that would technically be generators running on the solar panels simply existing lol.
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That's almost clever considering what 'spic' actually means.
Hint: It makes complaints such as yours analogous to bitching that the UK's being overrun by Canadians.
Now we recycle the graves.
We convert the bodies of the corps to pure energy using antibodies.
In demographics, "Hispanic" (the word which "spic" is probably derived from) is used for people from Spanish-speaking countries in the Americas. Spaniards are typically categorized under European immigrants. The culture of Spanish colonies in the Americas has grown drastically different from that of Spain through admixture with indigenous populations, and it's no surprise to see racists like the OP pick up on those.
Can you ramp this up to produce a solar-powered crematorium?
You know you need more sleep when you read the title as "Spinach City Sets Up Solar Cemetery". Sounds intriguing... where can I sign up for the newsletter?
Wait for the next features.
Solar powered LCD headstones.
Such witticisms as /George> will forever bounce around as the screensaver.
Simply wave in front of the sensor and you'll be directed to myspace or facebook for their life story and links to their loved ones.
Is nothing sacred? Next thing you know, they'll have mobile phone towers in church steeples, nude nun calendars and rabbi rap videos... oh wait
spic = southamericans
62 t of co2 at a high price of 50 EUR/t (wildly optimistic) is 3100 EUR worth of co2 saved per year.
If we discount at 5% p.a. to eternity, that still makes only 62 000 EUR worth of co2 savings. An investment of 720.000 EUR is crazy.
In fact co2 prices would have to be 580 EUR/t to make this worth it.
When the corpses hear of this, they will be spinning in their graves. If we attach magnets to them and put coils around their graves, we have another source of power.
Of course it's crazy. If they were really wanting to be useful, instead of pretending, they'd spend the money on any one of 100 better schemes.
Sheesh!
Dig a hole and fill it with wood. Invest in CO2 collection technology. Wind farms. Fusion research. All *kinds* of things are better than throwing money at little parasols on graves that pretend to be a solution.
Coal cost about $120/tonne Australian, probably about 60 pounds/tonne, at the multi-year-high that the mining industry has enjoyed. I believe it is currently dropping.
So, 62 tonnes would be less than $8,000 AU to buy, or about $4,000 pounds. The economics of this solution suggest that this it would damage the economy a lot more than the current financial instability, and that the money would have been better off in research into something viable on a large scale. I'm ignoring a lot of things - but 62 tonnes of carbon isn't worth more than half a million euro. I hope they got something else out of this project than a feeling of green.
Also, these panels look a little bit more fragile than 62 tonnes of rock. I hope that Spain is known for a lack of vandalism.
I wonder how much pollution/CO2 was 'pumped in to the atmosphere' when making these panels. Presumably from what I've read on solar panels, it was probably around 620 Tonnes, as the general figure is it takes 10 years to recoup the enegery expended in making these things. How long are these panels expected to last?
a good use of otherwise dead space.
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You've got it backwards IMHO.
With the aggregated solar heat you should end up at a point where to-be-cremated people go into spontaneous combustion and then it's just a matter of sustaining the fire. And avoid passed away alcoholics - you need controllable combustion.
Yeah - anon. Enough politically correct idiots around that won't recognise this for humor..
Why on earth does a first post gets a "redundant" score?
Better dead then red...err....green! err..
Don't look now, but the US is well on it's way to becoming a "3rd world shithole". Just research a little about what actually killed Ecuador's economy and you will find it was the government "printing" so much money that it became, borderline, worthless. We are doing it at $700 blillion increments. Judging from your post, you won't know what the word research is nor would you ever grasp anything relating to monetary devaluation. /trollbait
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they forget to mention it only powers 60 homes each year.
I'm sure a solar powered zombie movie is already in the works. Yeah, but I'm sure they'll figure out a way to incorporate the solar panels into weapons. Zombie BBQ!
I for one welcome our new Solar Powered Zombie overlords...
So, first, it's great that they're exploring novel ideas in deploying solar power generation. Well done.
But, it's saving 62 tons of CO2 per year? I think it'd be far better to bill it as "it can power $number homes" or some other metric as just removing 10-15 cars from the road would eliminate the same amount of CO2 emissions but probably cost far less than 720k Euros. Average CO2 emissions per vehicle in the US as of 2004 is 5.5 tons/year, and older cars are obviously worse polluters. Not sure what the emissions standards and vehicle type distribution is like in Spain but I'm assuming all the vehicles on their roads aren't brand new super-green models. They could have held a lottery for people with heavily polluting clunkers and bought them each a clean ~20k Euro car and removed more CO2 emissions annually if the CO2 reduction was the primary goal.
"You son of a bitch. You moved the cemetery, but you left the bodies, didn't you? You son of a bitch, you left the bodies and you only moved the solar panels. You only moved the solar panels! Why?! Why?!"
Yeah, doesn't quite have the same ring to it, does it?
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It's about time we reclaim the space wasted on medieval superstition. Too bad George Carlin didn't get to see this. So when do we get to plow up those bourgeoise playgrounds?
Assuming their 62 tonnes per year figure is actually correct (almost certainly optimistic) and their published pricetag gets spread over a twenty year service life of the equipment and the 3.15 to one conversion between a barrel of oil and tonnes of CO2 emissions and it doesn't make much sense unless you assume oil will average close to 200 euros per barrel over those years. Vary it a up bit to account for maintaince costs or down a bit if you assume a longer service life without major repairs.
And that is the problem with every 'green' project I have ever seen real numbers on. They aren't green, they are dumb. And don't even start in on bringing the cost down because that never happens. As soon as an 'alternative' source of energy begins to get practical the greens decide it isn't green anymore. They love alternatives that allow them to appear superiour and scarf up grant money but never support a new source of energy when it starts looking like it might actually, ya know, supply energy. Hydro is now evil. As commercial wind farms are being developed the chorus of complaint is already tuning up. There are even protests over geothermal! Protests are already underway over large scale solar installations. None of which makes sense until you understand that to a green, people are the problem and any solution that doesn't involve dismantling the industrial base that allows such an 'unnatural' population to be killed off by famine isn't going to satisfy the environmental movement. So forget appeasing them by finding some magic green energy source that will allow us to continue on our present course, they ain't buying the whole premise of Civilization itself.
The solution has been staring us in the face for almost half a century but for political reasons it is out of bounds. We must ignore the bleatings of the self hating greens and secure ourselves enough energy to carry us over until we finally perfect fusion. We must stop handing over huge sacks of cash to people who want nothing more than to kill every last one of us. We need to build nukes like our lives depended on it. Because they do. It wont just be our lifestyle that gets crimped when we start running out of energy, we can't sustain anywhere the number of people on this planet without abundant energy.
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Ummm, not to be rude but I think why the heck should they build a solar powered cemetery???
Does the dead need air-conditioner when they are already dead??
And how in the world does this issue effects US???
And HTH NE1 (675604), I hope you don't get too rude. This is not a private forum or chat-room or stuff like that
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