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Why The Environazi Right Fears This New Tech! Harvesting Obeses Rightists As Renewable Source of Energy - An Idea Who's Time Has Arrived!

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Biodiesel from human fat: illegal (not to mention unappetizing) but 
technically feasible

    By Larry Greenemeier on December 29, 2008

Biodiesel made from plant stock or animal fat (or a combination of the 
two) will likely get a lot of attention in the coming year as a potential 
fuel alternative to the petroleum, gasoline and kerosene polluting the 
environment. But don't expect human cellulite to make the cut when it 
comes to renewable fuel, despite claims by one Beverly Hills, Calif., doc 
that he powered his Ford SUV and his girlfriend's Lincoln Navigator using 
fat that he liposuctioned from patients.

Craig Alan Bittner, 40, medical director of the now-defunct Beverly Hills 
Liposculpture and a board-certified radiologist, didn't stick around to 
make his case for the use of flabby fuel. Rather, he fled to South America 
to avoid prosecution for several alleged crimes (in addition to the 
unsubstantiated claim of using human fat to make biodiesel), including 
allegedly allowing his assistant and his girlfriend to perform surgeries 
without a medical license, Forbes.com reports.

The California State Medical Board last month searched Bittner's Rodeo 
Drive office and his home, confiscating medical records, computers and 
other documents regarding his "liposculpting" practice, the Beverly Hills 
Courier reported earlier this month.

In a letter to patients posted on his Web site, Bittner  says he left his 
plastic surgery practice to return to South America "to volunteer with a 
small clinic that is very similar to where my medical career began decades 
ago, where I can help those most in need."

Kevin Pho, a Nashua, N.H., primary care physician board-certified in 
internal medicine, noted last week on his KevinMD.com Web site that, 
though possible to make biofuel from human fat, it is illegal to do so. 
It's possible that Bittner didn't realize he was breaking the law, given 
that he posted regular updates on his fat feat on his blog, 
lipodiesel.com, which is no longer functioning. He portrayed his 
liposuction business as a success, claiming to have treated nearly 7,000 
patients. There are also customer testimonials on Bittner's site, where he 
posted photos in which he's pictured with patients holding up bags 
purportedly containing the globs of fat suctioned from various parts of 
their bodies.

Bittner's legal troubles (he was also sued in 2003 for "false and 
deceptive advertising" of a test marketed as an alternative to mammography 
for the detection of breast cancer) aside, his quest for a feasible form 
of renewable fuel is shared by scientists worldwide. Mind you, most of 
them are researching much more promising (and legal) biofuel ingredients 
such as algae, jatropa (a woody shrub from Africa that produces oily 
seeds) and beef and chicken lard.

It's been known for some time that animal fat is, technically, a good 
source for biofuels. In a 1996 report to the National Biodiesel Board (a 
biodiesel trade association established in 1992), University of Idaho 
researcher Jon Van Gerpen (at the time with Iowa State University) 
concluded that biodiesel fuels produced from vegetable oils and animal 
fats are very similar, containing the same chemical compounds but in 
different amounts. "There does not appear to be any basis for making a 
distinction between the two fuels in terms of their impact on engine 
performance and emissions," he wrote.

More recently, Tyson Foods and biofuel company Syntroleum Corporation 
formed a joint venture called Dynamic Fuels and in October broke ground on 
a $138 million renewable fuels plant in Geismar, La. Dynamic Fuels will 
primarily use Tyson Foods's beef tallow, pork lard, chicken fat and 
greases to make a renewable synthetic diesel fuel that can be sold in the 
U.S. within the existing diesel fuel distribution system. The Dynamic 
Fuels plant is scheduled to begin production in 2010, with a total 
capacity of 75 million gallons per year.

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