I remember reading that when the british brought steam trains to egypt,
they first ran them on the only readily available source of
fuel--mummies of both humans and cats.

One of the many web reference:
http://www.antipixel.com/blog/archives/2002/03/11/mummy_power.html

Jim

On Sep 15, 2005, at 12:16 PM, JordanVw@AOL.COM wrote:

> In a message dated 9/15/05 9:40:47 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> maggie@westfam.net writes:
>
>
>>
>> Reminds me of the movie "Soylent Green" - would sure solve the
>> problem of
>> where to bury all those dead folks.
>>
>>
>
> precisely my point.   human corpses in cemetaries take up valuable land
> space.  if they were burned as fuel, it would kill two people with one
> stone.   i
> mean kill two birds with one stone.
>
> i see a new business opportunity here..
>
> chris
>