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With morgues brimming, Texas and Arizona turn to refrigerator trucks:
Officials in Texas and Arizona have requested refrigerated trucks to hold the dead as hospitals and morgues become overwhelmed by victims of the raging COVID-19 pandemic.
"In the hospital, there are only so many places to put bodies," Ken Davis, chief medical officer of Christus Santa Rosa Health System in the San Antonio area, said in a briefing this week. "We're out of space, and our funeral homes are out of space, and we need those beds. So, when someone dies, we need to quickly turn that bed over.
"It's a hard thing to talk about," Davis added. "People's loved ones are dying."
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Anyone can make an omelet with eggs. The trick is to make one with none.
(Score: 4, Informative) by c0lo on Saturday July 18 2020, @02:00AM
Done correctly, water (in heaps) then CO2, some nitrogen and its oxides in minor quantities, small amounts of sulphur dioxide and other things not worth mentioning by quantity.
No, methane is too high in energy to be emitted during the combustion - even with a reduction flame (not enough oxygen for a complete oxidation) you'll get carbon monoxide and other compounds containing carbon and oxygen rather than methane.
To get methane by heating dead bodies, you will need to desiccate them first and then subject them to dry pyrolysis with inert gases as carriers (so that you cool down the products quickly). One of the methods to obtain carbon black is hydrocarbon pyrolysis [wikipedia.org] - that is to show methane will decompose at the temperatures required to drive out gases from the body in the absence of oxygen.
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You will get methane though by anaerobic fermentation - those microbes will use the oxygen in the body's substances for their own purpose and let part of the carbon go as methane. See biogas digesters [wikipedia.org]
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