Liposuctioned fat could be bio-diesel fuel
Posted on : Thu, 07 Dec 2006 01:28:01 GMT | Author : General News Editor
OSLO, Norway, Dec. 6 - One person's liposuction is another person's biodiesel fuel, as a Norwegian businessman wants to use suctioned fat to develop an alternative fuel source.
Biodiesel can be produced from either plant oils or animal fat, and Lauri Venoy sees the product from liposuction procedures as a renewable energy source, Aftenposten said.
Venoy's firm in Miami is in negotiations with a hospital to give the company about 3,000 gallons of human fat a week from liposuction operations, which the company says is enough to produce about 2,600 gallons of biodiesel fuel.
In Norway biodiesel is primarily produced from fish oils and used fryer fat.
Copyright 2006 by UPI
What a great idea as far as sustainability goes! There's no shortage of this fuel source, so you might as well use it as an input for another system! Who knew that that was the real reason America is so damn fat - we saw the energy crunch coming? Ahem.
2 comments:
Ohh I LOVE the idea. Eat fattening foods, get it sucked out, drive your car back to the drive-in for more fattening foods, and then over to the drive-through pharmacist to get your blood pressure, heart regulator, cholesteral, diabetes medicine. Yep sounds like a plan to me!
They better stop teaching healthy eating in schools or the resource may not be as renewable as we think.
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