Surgeon Uses Human Fat As Alternative Fuel To Run His Car

[kpete]

Surgeon Uses Human Fat As Alternative Fuel To Run His Car
Dec 27, 2008

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.

So now Dr. Alan Bittner’s clinic is closed, and liposuction patients have to get their fat sucked out somewhere else.

He took the fat from patients during liposuction procedures which were carried out in Beverly Hills, California.

http://www.autoracingdaily.com/news/alternative-fuel/surgeon-uses-human-fat-as-alternative-fuel-to-run-his-car/

[fishbulb703]

1. Illegal? We use dead flora/fauna to power our cars now!

[Vanje]

2. I've been burning human fat to power my vehicle for decades!

I pedal my ass off riding a bicycle.

[sakabatou]

3. lol

[tooeyeten]

5. I'm with ya

:toast:

[Javaman]

4. I've heard that this story has been found bogus...

also, this guy has a long history of being a scammer.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

6. Now are we going to start looking at people differently, judging their worth

on how long they could keep our cars running? Dangerous territory! ;)