Swimmers at a leisure centre just outside Birmingham, UK will now get fit knowing that, in part, their increased energy levels will come from more than just their own efforts.
The local authority in Redditch has come up with the bright / tasteless idea of diverting what they call ‘waste heat’ from a crematorium to heat the swimming pool and health centre which happens to be next door.
Lot of guff from the council about energy efficiency, and how this is done a lot in Sweden.
Truth is that schemes like this will come to symbolize the meaning of the phrase ‘anything goes’ in a very austere and bleak cut driven England of 2011.