Cars powered by human fat?
The idea of using human fat to power a vehicle is parody--right? Not entirely. Back in 2007 a strange notion of a boat powered by human-derived diesel made the press.
The skipper donated his liposuctioned fat to power his vessel: "Bethune underwent liposuction and donated enough to produce 100ml of biofuel, while two other, larger volunteers also had the procedure, making a total of 10 litres of human fat."
This fat was only enough to power the bat-mobile-looking boat for 15 km.
Alas, leave it to a doctor with access to large quantities of human fat to launch a "LipoDiesel" fuel initiative.
Dr. Alan Bittner, a Beverly Hills doctor, openly promoted the reprocessing his liposuction patient's fat into fuel for his SUV.
Dr. Bittner's slogan, "Even liposuction can go green," graced a website he operated called lipodiesel.org
Publicity stunt? Doesn't appear to be so; the lipodiesel site was taken down and other medical experts warn that fuel-from-human-fat is an improper way to dispose of human waste.
Posted by Tom Seery for Real Beauty News (Thank you weearth for the tweet alert)
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30 Nov 2008
Um, this brillant idea seems wrong on so many levels. Last time I checked all Doctors and Hospitals had comply with Biohazard regulations set up by the state from which they live. How scarry!