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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: CG6468 on September 01, 2011, 09:31:36 PM
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New body 'liquefaction' unit unveiled in Florida funeral home
By Neil Bowdler Science reporter, BBC News
A Glasgow-based company has installed its first commercial "alkaline hydrolysis" unit at a Florida funeral home.
The unit by Resomation Ltd is billed as a green alternative to cremation and works by dissolving the body in heated alkaline water.
The facility has been installed at the Anderson-McQueen funeral home in St Petersburg, and will be used for the first time in the coming weeks. It is hoped other units will follow in the US, Canada and Europe.
The makers claim the process produces a third less greenhouse gas than cremation, uses a seventh of the energy, and allows for the complete separation of dental amalgam for safe disposal.
Mercury from amalgam vaporised in crematoria is blamed for up to 16% of UK airborne mercury emissions, and many UK crematoria are currently fitting mercury filtration systems to meet reduced emission targets.
All of this to reclaim silver and implants from tooth fillings?
News from the world of funerals (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14114555)
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All my uncle Joe needed in WWII was a pair of pliers. He had a tobacco tin full of Japanese teeth from Saipan and Iwo Jima. All of them glittering with gold fillings. I asked him how he came by so many and he admitted he didn't have the stomach for that sort of thing but a lot of guys who were able to go ashore did and he was a very good poker player.
That all came to light one time when my aunt was looking for hardware or something and happened to get that old tin down from a shelf in the garage. When she realized what she was peering at in the can she yelped and teeth went everywhere all over the garage. :-)