My daughter pointed me to a video produced by ZapRoot where a Bush administration “fat to fuel” program was parodied. Well, the Bush administration part was a parody, but with a little investigation we discovered that human fat is, indeed, being used as fuel and that this opportunity has become an underground bio-request between one Norwegian company and one Miami Hospital. One story we found in Aftenposten stated:
More than sixty percent of Americans are overweight and the Norwegian’s firm in Miami, Florida is in the process of signing an agreement with US hospital giant Jackson Memorial. This deal would give Venøy & Co. around 11,500 liters of human fat a week from liposuction operations, which is enough to produce about 10,000 liters of bio-diesel.
Does it really work? It does. Just ask skipper Pete Bethune, who has contributed his own fat to produce 100 milliliters of biofuel. He’s used this fuel to power Earthrace, a powerboat currently on its way around the world in an attempt to beat the current world record. But how far will this fat for fuel quest go? According to the video on ZapRoot, you can count on McDonalds for bio-source food products and you can count further on a few buttocks for your gasoline. To stay skinny, after all, would be very unpatriotic in this era of peak oil.
Posted by ewoman at 1:04 AM PDT
