Human Fat Used To Run Cars
US plastic surgeon who 'used fat from clients to run car'
US authorities are investigating a Beverly Hills cosmetic surgeon who claims that he used fat he removed from patients in liposuction operations to power his "green" four-wheel-drive car.
24 Dec 2008
California's public health department has opened an inquiry into claims made by Dr Alan Bittner that he had turned fat removed from his patients into biodiesel.
Mr Bittner wrote on his website: "The vast majority of my patients request that I use their fat for fuel - and I have more fat than I can use.
"Not only do they get to lose their love handles or chubby belly, but they get to take part in saving the Earth."
The website lipodiesel.com has since been shut down and Mr Bittner's clinic has closed.
US business magazine Forbes reported that Dr Bittner used the "lipofuel" to power both his Ford Explorer car and his girlfriend's Lincoln Navigator.
It is not known how Dr Bittner went about turning the fat sucked out of patients into fuel.
But he claims to have carried out more than 7,000 lipo operations - and according to Forbes, a gallon of fat will produce about a gallon of fuel, and drivers can get about the same amount of mileage from fat fuel as they do from regular diesel.
It is illegal in the US to use human medical waste to power vehicles.
US plastic surgeon who 'used fat from clients to run car'
US authorities are investigating a Beverly Hills cosmetic surgeon who claims that he used fat he removed from patients in liposuction operations to power his "green" four-wheel-drive car.
24 Dec 2008
California's public health department has opened an inquiry into claims made by Dr Alan Bittner that he had turned fat removed from his patients into biodiesel.
Mr Bittner wrote on his website: "The vast majority of my patients request that I use their fat for fuel - and I have more fat than I can use.
"Not only do they get to lose their love handles or chubby belly, but they get to take part in saving the Earth."
The website lipodiesel.com has since been shut down and Mr Bittner's clinic has closed.
US business magazine Forbes reported that Dr Bittner used the "lipofuel" to power both his Ford Explorer car and his girlfriend's Lincoln Navigator.
It is not known how Dr Bittner went about turning the fat sucked out of patients into fuel.
But he claims to have carried out more than 7,000 lipo operations - and according to Forbes, a gallon of fat will produce about a gallon of fuel, and drivers can get about the same amount of mileage from fat fuel as they do from regular diesel.
It is illegal in the US to use human medical waste to power vehicles.
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