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My car runs on high performance fat

Posted in Random, Tech by Derek at 4:25 pm
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One day, our lust for high performance, big horsepower, vehicles will come to and end as our dependence on standard fossil fuels is depleted. What happens when our usual sources of fuel disappear? Well, we begin to turn towards alternative forms of fuel – one such form of fuel being bio-diesel.

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.

What other natural sources can we use in order to create usable bio-fuel? Would you have any problems burning fat under your hood.

One Response to “My car runs on high performance fat”

  1. Don Wilson says:

    We’re no where near the end of the world’s oil supply, but that’s another argument.

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