Holy Liposuction Mobile Batman! Cars fueled 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.
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unregistered guest
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!
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26 Jan 2010
Deisel enignes were originally designed to run on alternative fuels such as vegetable oil,Rape seed oil. The problem with alternative fuels is theres no tax or (Duty) as we call it here in th UK (£500 fine & veichle impound, likely crushed). The oil companys dont want people to think that using such everyday supermarket cooking oils could power there car for a fith of the price per litre of diesel and just as officiantly, Why because they make billions apon billions producing the oil by-product diesel