Liposuction Doctor Used Fat from Patients to Power His Car

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by Mike , the Health Ranger, December 24, 2008

Key concepts: Liposuction, Biodiesel and Body fat

It sounds like a great idea, actually: Take the excess body fat from liposuction

patients and use it to power your car. That's what a Beverly Hills doctor

figured, and he even bragged about it on his website LipoDiesel.com (now shut

down). It even sounds like a California trend: Get thin and reduce America's

dependence on foreign oil all at the same time!

But sometimes the " cutting edge " of green goes too far, and California's state

medical authorities were not amused to learn of Dr. Bittner's eco-friendly body

fat recycling program. It is apparently illegal in the United States to use

human body parts (even the parts people are throwing away) as fuel to power

automobiles. I'd like to see somebody quote me any law that actually says that,

by the way. Personally, I don't believe such a law exists.

So now Dr. Alan Bittner's clinic is closed, and liposuction patients have to get

their fat sucked out somewhere else. So where, exactly, does all that excess

body fat go from liposuction clinics? If you saw Fight Club, you might recall

the main characters rendering the body fat into high explosives. I like the

Lipodiesel idea better, because it puts the excess body fuel towards a more

productive use.

Instead of shutting down this operation, the state of California should embrace

it. Why not do a joint venture with Mcs? " Eat a Big Mac. You'll get a

smile, and your car goes another mile! "

Besides, a nation full of fat people could serve as a reserve oil supply. If the

Arab nations stop shipping us barrels oil, we can just start tapping into the

population to power our cars with liposuction fat. And if we run out of body fat

to process into diesel fuel, we can always eat more, right? Eating more junk

food might actually become patriotic: " Snarf down some burgers and fries for

your nation's energy independence! " Talk about Freedom Fries, huh?

Don't laugh, because I'm not making this up, but the human body stores so much

energy that the town of Helsingborg, Sweden, uses the heat from local

crematoriums to generate about 10 percent of the heat used its homes.

Technically speaking, it would be a very simple matter for crematoriums to power

steam turbines that generate electricity.

Although the idea may seem a little strange right now, it's not hard to imagine

a future where people are either encouraged or forced to donate their bodies

back to society upon their death by converting their physical body mass into

usable energy. Dr. Bittner was merely doing that with patients who volunteered

to use their liposuction fat to help power automobiles.

The exhaust of vehicles burning biodiesel made from fast food grease smells a

bit like French fries. I wonder what Dr. Bittner's car exhaust smells like?

Fried rump roast?

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[Guest guest]

What a scream!!! I LOVE it. The guy really had something going there. And of course it would come from Hollyweird. You know they say that California is tilted and all the nuts rolled to Hollywood!

I'm still chuckling over this one.

Thank you - Shari