Can human fat run cars?

Los Angeles, United States, December 31: A leading Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, Alan Bittner, who runs a high-profile clinic on Rodeo Drive, the Bond Street of Los Angeles, announced last week that he was using fat removed by liposuction to drive his car. Now this news has made the scientists analyze whether we can run our cars from human fat or not.

Dr. Bittner claimed last week that biofuel converted from excess flesh from human tums, bums and thighs through liposuction, which he calls ‘lipodeisel’, is used to power both his Ford Explorer and his girlfriend's Lincoln Navigator.

Scientists are saying that human fat can be turned into biofuel, since it contains triglycerides, which are the same fat tissues found in waste animal fats used for the same purpose. But there are some reasons that put Bittner’s claims in doubt.

Bittner had claimed that he was using biodiesel, or lipodiesel as he calls it, to power Lincoln Navigator, while biodiesel can be used only in diesel engine cars and Lincoln Navigator is not a diesel engine car.

Second reason is that perhaps he made the claim for some publicity because his last venture was shut down due to false advertising. The last reason is that his story is based on the movie “Fight Club” in which a character uses human fat to make soaps. How can this story be believed?

Dr. Bittner’s life is based on fiction; he practices as a "liposculpture" specialist, his board certification was in radiology, and he was accused that he let unlicensed workers perform surgeries. Taking into account all this, this lipodiesel concept may be more the product of fabrication than anything else.