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   Siri Cruise wrote   
      
   > In article ,   
   >  "Joe's 'ho down"  wrote:   
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   >> The European group Transport and Environment (T&E), which campaigns for   
   >   
   > Never heard of them before.   
   >   
   >> renewable energy in transportation, found three top-selling plug-in   
   >> hybrid SUVs - BMW's X5, Volvo's XC60 and Mitsubishi's Outlander - are   
   >> emitting 28% to 89% more carbon dioxide than advertised, even under   
   >> ideal road conditions.   
   >   
   > Has their thesis been peer reviewed yet?   
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   It's time to turn the fat of rightists into fuel for our SUVs.   
      
      
   Most of their other body parts are useless, but their fat will give them   
   purpose to exist.   
      
      
   Harvesting fat rightists for their blubber:  The renewable fuel   
   of the future.   
      
   Biodiesel from human fat technically feasible   
      
   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.   
      
   Even with his apparently large clientele, it's unlikely Bittner   
   could have competed with that type of volume. Update (10:45   
   p.m.): 60-Second Science reader Quinn Heraty notes that this   
   post reminded her of "Vivoleum," a fake campaign by the Yes   
   Men, a group that impersonates the powerful to satirize them.   
   Their Vivoleum is an oil product made from human flesh -- in   
   this case people who are already dead. (Heraty does some pro   
   bono work for the Yes Men, along with the Electronic Frontier   
   Foundation.)   
      
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