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ZapRoot: Google Causes Global Warming?

Jeff McIntire-Strasburg — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:29:08 +0000

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This week at ZapRoot: Is Google destroying the planet one search at a time? The recycling market has gone bust. And check out “That’s Just Weird.”

Soylent Fuel is People! Biodiesel Made From Humans? Ick.

Nick Chambers — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:42:48 +0000

In the category of “Things I’d Rather Never Read About Again,” we’ve found a winner.

A plastic surgeon in Los Angeles has discovered that he can use the fat he liposuctions off of his patients to provide all the biodiesel he needs to power his and his girlfriend’s SUVs. Not only that, he says he has extra. I wonder if he’s willing to share?

Got the heebies yet?

Alan Bittner, a high scale Beverly Hills doctor, has been making the liposuctioned human fat into biodiesel for some time now. There are lots of rendering firms in the US — like Tyson Farms, for instance — that already take similar waste, such as poultry fat, and turn it into biodiesel, but I’m imaging that Bittner is the first guy to actually turn human fat into fuel.

The Solution to America’s Foreign Oil Dependency: Biofuels made from Liposuction Fat

Jennifer Lance — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:44:34 +0000

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Team EarthRace caught our attention on Gas 2.0 for circumventing the Earth powered by biodiesel and beating the world record, but did you know the boat was also powered by the captain’s liposuctioned fat? Pete Bethune’s fat was converted to 100ml of biofuel. Maybe America’s obesity rates are not such a problem after all if liposuctioned fat can be made into fuel.

Via: Eco Geek