Friday, February 24, 2012

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Recycling. That's the name of the game. Metals, plastic, glass, paper, water and yes, even heat.

How do you recycle heat? Worcestershire in Great Britain has figured out one unique way. As long as you are not too squeamish about where your heat comes from.

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Sir George Young, leader of the House of Commons, said the proposal to warm a Worcestershire leisure centre with heat from a nearby crematorium was a "groundbreaking scheme."

He said the Government is considering whether the plan could be duplicated elsewhere in Britain.

"The Government is aware of this particular scheme," he said. "The Department for Energy and Climate Change will shortly be publishing its heat strategy and this will explore the potential for better recovery and reuse of wasted heat in schemes such as this one."

He added that he would "die a happier man" if he knew heat from his cremation was warming the waters of a local pool.

Redditch Borough Council will be the first authority in the country to use a crematorium to heat a swimming pool. Work has already begun on the project, which is expected to be completed this spring.

Currently, heat from the incinerators at crematoria - which reach 800 degrees C (1,472F) - is lost into the atmosphere.

Karen Lumley, the Conservative MP for Redditch, had raised the plan as an example of an "innovative scheme which could save 14,500 pounds a year to the taxpayer by heat not being put out into the atmosphere."