Green Options » rendering http://greenoptions.com/tag/rendering Posts tagged 'rendering' Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:42:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Soylent Fuel is People! Biodiesel Made From Humans? Ick. http://gas2.org/2008/12/22/soylent-fuel-is-people-biodiesel-made-from-humans-ick/ http://gas2.org/2008/12/22/soylent-fuel-is-people-biodiesel-made-from-humans-ick/#comments Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:42:48 +0000 Nick Chambers http://gas2.org/2008/12/22/soylent-fuel-is-people-biodiesel-made-from-humans-ick/ 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.

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