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Liposuctioned fat could be bio-diesel fuel

Discussion in 'Environmental Discussion' started by Beryl Octet, Dec 12, 2006.

  1. Beryl Octet

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    http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/12174.html

    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
     
    #1 Beryl Octet, Dec 12, 2006
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    MegansPrius GoogleMeister, AKA bongokitty

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    Oh, stories like this just burn me up! :D
     
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    Liposuctioned fat into fuel, eh? So, now I'm not overweight, but bio-diesel enriched?
    Who knew McDonalds could be a "filling" station? :blink:
     
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    F8L Protecting Habitat & AG Lands

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(SAPrius @ Dec 12 2006, 11:11 AM) [snapback]361021[/snapback]</div>
    Where is that story about the surfer guys in Ca. that drove up the coast in a Volvo or Mercedes bio-diesel, stopping at fast food joints to fill up the tank? lol


    So if we can create bio-diesel from human fat my question is, do we have to wait for them to get surgery or die or can we just add a blender to the trunk of the Prius like they had on the Delorean in Back to the Future? Might help with the over population problem...... :lol:
     
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    My buddy Tyler Durden make some sweet soap out of that stuff...

    Nate
     
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    Like a famous cannibal once said, “What a waist.â€
     
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  7. Beryl Octet

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(naterprius @ Dec 12 2006, 04:55 PM) [snapback]361149[/snapback]</div>
    Selling their own fat asses back to them... Yeah, that movie was just a little too far ahead of its time.
     
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    Who knew I was sitting on a goldmine?
     
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    Eew.... just eew.
     
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    There's a movie in this somewhere.
     
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    A pauly shore movie... called something like "nice person Gas" :eek:
     
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    It would make an excellent episode of the Larry David show. His wife could organize pickets at trendy Hollywood cosmetic surgery joints and meathead could fund a proposition to make fat farms recycle.
     
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    And so the body image turns.

    It used to be that thin people were poor and plump people were rich.

    Now it's the thin that are rich and many poor are overweight.

    But if poor people can sell their body fat for biodiesel, then the tables will turn and the sign of being poor will be to be really thin.
     
    #13 Godiva, Dec 27, 2006
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