Morbidly obese woman sparks crematory fire

[Imp]

Wonder if the family asked for the remains...

 

[dave_the_nerd]

This happens pretty regularly, actually.

 

[GundamW]

DailyMail? Seriously yahoo?!

 

[Ausm]

Let's see if I can do this right...

1kcal = 3.9657 BTU

1 gram fat = 9kcal

1 gram of fat = 35.691 BTU

So let's go with 150lbs of pure fat.

150lbs, assuming Earth gravity:awe: = 68039 grams
= 2,428,380 BTU = 711.7 kwh


Per Wikipedia, gasoline provides 33.41 kwh/gallon. (Mmm, what a delightful mess of units.) And 6.073 lbs per gallon...

5.5014 kwh/lb for gasoline.

4.745 kwh/lb for fat.

Not too bad, and you don't have to go very far to refuel.

^^

 

[highland145]

Let's see if I can do this right...

1kcal = 3.9657 BTU

1 gram fat = 9kcal

1 gram of fat = 35.691 BTU

So let's go with 150lbs of pure fat.

150lbs, assuming Earth gravity:awe: = 68039 grams
= 2,428,380 BTU = 711.7 kwh


Per Wikipedia, gasoline provides 33.41 kwh/gallon. (Mmm, what a delightful mess of units.) And 6.073 lbs per gallon...

5.5014 kwh/lb for gasoline.

4.745 kwh/lb for fat.

Not too bad, and you don't have to go very far to refuel.

Just pull into any fast food restaurant to refill. "Harpoons at the ready!"

 

[mmntech]

Just pull into any fast food restaurant to refill. "Harpoons at the ready!"

Yar, there be the white whale that took me leg.

 

[JTsyo]

Let's see if I can do this right...

1kcal = 3.9657 BTU

1 gram fat = 9kcal

1 gram of fat = 35.691 BTU

So let's go with 150lbs of pure fat.

150lbs, assuming Earth gravity:awe: = 68039 grams
= 2,428,380 BTU = 711.7 kwh


Per Wikipedia, gasoline provides 33.41 kwh/gallon. (Mmm, what a delightful mess of units.) And 6.073 lbs per gallon...

5.5014 kwh/lb for gasoline.

4.745 kwh/lb for fat.

Not too bad, and you don't have to go very far to refuel.

expect it won't burn as nice as gas will in a compressed piston with a spark. might work for power plants though.

 

[D1gger]

Gee I thought Austrians had perfected human ovens back in the 40's?

 

[highland145]

Gee I thought Austrians had perfected human ovens back in the 40's?

Out of practice.

 

[AnitaPeterson]

What a waist.

I see what you did there... Kudos, sir!

*edit*... Somehow, there's a quote from Postal 2 that comes to mind: "Smells like chicken... Mmmm, slow roasted goodness!"

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Let's see if I can do this right...

1kcal = 3.9657 BTU

1 gram fat = 9kcal

1 gram of fat = 35.691 BTU

So let's go with 150lbs of pure fat.

150lbs, assuming Earth gravity:awe: = 68039 grams
= 2,428,380 BTU = 711.7 kwh


Per Wikipedia, gasoline provides 33.41 kwh/gallon. (Mmm, what a delightful mess of units.) And 6.073 lbs per gallon...

5.5014 kwh/lb for gasoline.

4.745 kwh/lb for fat.

Not too bad, and you don't have to go very far to refuel.

You are a genius. Just get them, or a family member after they expire, to sign a release. They can perform more work dead, than they did while alive. :awe:

 

[thejunglegod]

i can not even imagine how bad her family must've felt. RIP.

 

[CraigRT]

Fire blazes in crematorium, hundreds feared dead.

slow clap...

 

[WackyDan]

Only after the oil reserves dry up.

Then we will become the new Saudi Arabia! Profit!

 

[ShawnD1]

It's disgusting how people can have no regard for their own well being.

It's over a 1/3 of us here in the USA today.

Not just their own wellbeing, but think of their car. A toyota corolla with 3x 400 pound people in it would chrew through a transmission every year.

 

[Ichinisan]

Epic grease fire.

This.

I wonder how she died? :hmm: Not really.

 

[SillyOReilly]

I don't mind using soap if it were based on animal fat.

If they actually made soap from this behemoth I would be disgusted at the thought of using it.

 

[Jeff7]

Fire blazes in crematorium, hundreds feared dead.

Hm...so how does that work for the bodies that queued up to be cremated, and in temporary storage? Shouldn't those paying customers get some kind of bulk deal discount?

 

[ShawnD1]

Hm...so how does that work for the bodies that queued up to be cremated, and in temporary storage? Shouldn't those paying customers get some kind of bulk deal discount?

I always wondered why cremation is so fucking expensive. Instead of burning them 1 at a time, they should just do a weight average. Suppose you have 100 bodies:
1 - measure the weight of each body (1)
2 - add up the weight of all bodies (2)
3 - burn all of them at the same time
4 - weigh the ashes (4)
5 - distribute ashes as (4) x [(1) / (2)]