Liposuction fat turns into biodiesel fuel

Tuesday December 12, 2006 ins: Cosmetic Surgery News Tag(s):

Technorati Tags: liposuction, cosmetic surgery, biodiesel

If you’re wondering where those gallons of liposuctioned fat go after a liposuction surgery, then wonder no more because United Press International has revealed that a certain Norwegian businessman wants to use suctioned fat to develop an alternative fuel source.

UPI delivers the news.

Biodiesel can be produced from either plant oils or animal fat, and Lauri Venoy sees the product from liposuction procedures as a renewable energy source, Aftenposten said.

Venoy's firm in Miami is in negotiations with a hospital to give the company about 3,000 gallons of human fat a week from liposuction operations, which the company says is enough to produce about 2,600 gallons of biodiesel fuel.

In Norway biodiesel is primarily produced from fish oils and used fryer fat.

Liposuction should not be viewed again as just another vain activity. It now has become a lot useful than it used to be. Who would ever thought that those unwanted fat can now be used to run cars and trucks? Amazing, isn’t it?

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