Go Halmstad!

From Disinformation:

Halmstad is a small city in western Sweden best known as the birthplace of soccer star and sometime-model Freddie Ljungberg. This winter, Halmstad will be staying warm in novel fashion: using excess heat from the town's crematorium.

The plan was developed recently at community meetings to address the massive amounts of smoke emanating from the crematorium's chimneys as corpses are burnt to ashes. The heat will now be redirected to warm the city. Here's more:

"When a body is cremated, toxic materials are released from the corpse. For example, fillings in the teeth, when heated to high temperatures, release mercury. In order to filter out the toxic materials before they are released into the air, the crematorium must cool the smoke from around 1,000ºC to 150ºC. But, with the heat now directed into the public heating system, the smoke will already be much closer to 150ºC and the crematorium will spend less on materials, including water, to cool it down."