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India, who's Hindu population require cremation as a death rite, and really needs to worry about deforestation, has been investigating direct focused solar crem
by theophrastus 11y ago
India, who's Hindu population require cremation as a death rite, and really needs to worry about deforestation, has been investigating direct focused solar cremations, ("Huge two parabolas of 32 m2 concentrate solar radiation"[1]). I always thought that might be an interesting way to do it, particularly if one's body could be placed so that you vaporize at sun-rise.
[1] http://www.tss-india.com/crematorium http://www.tss-india.com/crematorium
[2] http://www.solarthermalworld.org/content/india-first-solar-crematorium-trial-phase http://www.solarthermalworld.org/content/india-first-solar-c...
[3] PDF feasibility study: http://rsisinternational.org/Issue4/01-09.pdf http://rsisinternational.org/Issue4/01-09.pdf
- sandworm101 11y agoI"ve seen some of that "cremation" by the Ganges river. They were not spreading the ashes on the river so much as dumping rather large blocks of cooked flesh. Ash shouldn't make a splashing noise. The practice needs to be modernized. "Last week more than 80 bodies – mostly decomposed skeletons and half-burned corpses – surfaced in the river in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh after a drop in water levels. " http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/19/hindu-bodies-ganges-india-pollution-narendra-modi http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/19/hindu-bodies-ga...
- noonespecial 11y agoThat's such a neat idea. I'm imagining a Stonehenge like ring of mirror towers with a central platform in the middle at the focus. What an awesome ceremony it would be. "From stardust we all came to the star we return our loved one..."