How a Beverly Hills doctor powered his SUV using his patients' liposuction fat.

[Are_grits_groceries]

Liposuctioning unwanted blubber out of pampered Los Angelenos may not seem like a dream job, but it has its perks. Free fuel is one of them.

For a time, Beverly Hills doctor Craig Alan Bittner turned the fat he removed from patients into biodiesel that fueled his Ford SUV and his girlfriend's Lincoln Navigator.

Love handles can power a car? Frighteningly, yes. Fat--whether animal or vegetable--contains triglycerides that can be extracted and turned into diesel.

http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/12/21/fat-fuel-biodiesel-tech-sciences-cz_pcb_1222fatfuel.html?feed=rss_technology

There are sooo many inappropriate things I won't say.

Go Green!!

[ZombieHorde]

1. Great, now we are going to go to war with Switzerland for their chocolates.

[BOSSHOG]

2. Mississippi is the number one state in the country for obesity

Who needs to dig baby dig?? We don't need no stinking oil wells. Just suck baby suck.

[Ian David]

8. Just plug them into The Matrix, too. n/t

[antipode]

3. Okay, I don't want to hear what he was using in place of Botox

:scared:

[Vickers]

4. Fight Club for the new century.

:P

[backscatter712]

27. Lipo fat: a thousand and one uses.

You can make biofuel out of it, you can make soap out of it, you can make nitroglycerin... :evilgrin:

I still say soap's the best use - it's the creamiest fat in existence, so make it into those little high-end department store soaps, and sell rich people their own asses back to them.

[IDemo]

5. In other news, "Onion" satire site folds after inability to top reality n/t

[Shardik]

36. LOL... That is too true.

There is so much wrong with this story.

[KansDem]

6. Well, there really isn't much difference between this and the fossil fuels we use now.

Just take out the middle million years or so...

[Ian David]

7. Dick Cheney says the smell makes him hungry. n/t

[Warpy]

9. Soylent Green! It's not just for dinner any more!

(somebody was going to say it)

[lumberjack_jeff]

18. LOL, but you did!

:thumbsup:

[KittyWampus]

10. WAIT! Whuuuuuuuut?

:wtf:

[NJmaverick]

11. Wasn't this the idea behind the Matrix?

[Gregorian]

12. Wasn't this a Doctor Who episode?

Man, this is such a perfect metaphor for modern society. Fat people, and cars.

[guitar man]

13. Soylent Diesel!!

:D

[BrklynLiberal]

17. hahahahahahahahaa

[LeftyMom]

14. I'm calling bullshit. The diesel powered Navi doesnt get released until 2010.

And you can't run bio in a gas powered vehicle.

The other might be possible, Ford did make a diesel Excursion.

[eyesroll]

26. You can convert a car from gas to diesel.

Expensive as hell, but it's doable.

[LeftyMom]

35. Yeah, but if you wanted a giant diesel SUV, you could get a Excursion or a Dodge or GM model.

It seems kinda unlikely somebody'd go to the trouble of getting a Navi's guts rearranged when they could just buy a loaded diesel Suburban right off the lot.

[Liberal_in_LA]

15. ugh. I won't even read this thread.

[BrklynLiberal]

16. Gross...

but I guess that is almost the ultimate in re-cycling..

[liberalmuse]

19. Well, the Middle East may have oil...

Nevermind.

[lame54]

20. who says the rich don't give back?

[TheWraith]

21. Admirable, but still EEEEW!

Ick.

[AwakeAtLast]

22. First rule about Fight Club?

;)

[InkAddict]

23. Excess pieces/parts removed for vanity's sake can be stored, oh so nicely

right alongside the staff's lunches for whatever the doc's purposes may be. YUCK!

[Starbucks Anarchist]

24. Fat Club?

[KittyWampus]

25. I wonder what he cooks on the engine block- probably not a turkey.

[surrealAmerican]

28. This has got to smell.

You can notice the odor from vegetable oils, animal fats must be even more pungent.

[Cleita]

29. I don't know. There is just something creepy about that. I can't

wrap my mind around it being okay, even though logically it should be.

[anigbrowl]

38. I'm totally OK with it - what else is he going to do with it?

It's less icky than using it for lard or soap, and tallow candles don't burn too well.

[Ikonoklast]

30. Future Bumper Sticker:

This Vehicle Powered By Rick Warren's Back Fat.

[backscatter712]

37. or how about

"This vehicle powered by rich people's asses."

[dysfunctional press]

31. i can't wait for the "bio-diesel" slasher flick...

and bio-diesel 2, 3, & 4.

kewl.

[Swamp Rat]

32. Free? Doesn't he owe his patients for the energy he took?

[Occulus]

34. Didn't they already pay him to get rid of it?

I smell "mineral rights" property issues }(

:yoiks:

[Manifestor_of_Light]

40. "rule of capture" applies.

He captured it legally.

Where's Tyler Durden in all this????

Or Marla Singer?

[kentuck]

33. But how many miles per pound does it get ??

How far can he go on one big ass liposuction.

[1]

39. oh please tell me i can plug a tube into my fat ass as drive hither and yon...

that would be so cool...

[SoCalDem]

41. Ahhh...the circle of life

Women + Big Macs & fries + $$$ = Fuel for Lincoln Navigator

Better hope this does not catch on, or Plastic Surgeons will be sending out hit-squads to drug & round up obese people and suck the fat out of them ..a la "Coma"..

[jmowreader]

42. Soylent Green is worth 18mpg!

And ya know, I didn't even know Lincoln Navigators were available in diesel!

[AnnieBW]

43. Can I sell mine for this?

I'm the Saudi Arabia of fat.