Norwegian wants to turn fat Americans into bio-diesel.

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Do you think this disgusting, or would you fill up the car?

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1559489.ece

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Fortune in fat
A Norwegian businessman is looking to earn money on the fat of the land, and create fuel in the USA.

Lauri Venøy wants to use the product created from liposuction to develop bio-diesel.

Bio-diesel can be produced from plant oils and/or animal fat, and the Norwegian sees the scheme as a renewable energy source, newspaper Dagens Nærinsgliv reports.

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.

"Maybe we should urge people to eat more so we can create more raw material for fuel," Venøy said.

In Norway bio-diesel is primarily produced from fish oils and used fryer fat.

[Hrolf Kraki]

We should just burn 90% of the world's population for fuel. Nuts to just using fat people's excess. :p

But really, I found this quite humourous as the Norwegian businessman didn't say "Obese people", but specifically "obese Americans". :rofl:

Whilst I was in Norway, I did not see one fat person.

[shanemac]

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.


Typical Euro-trash America bashing. The economics and technicalities of this operation are ridiculous. He's just saying it to make fun of America.

Let's just say they actually did it. They say that they can create 10,000 L of bio-diesel from 11,500 L of fat... I don't believe the conversion efficiency would be that high. Anyway, let's just imagine the figures are accurate... A typical person might give 2L of fat (for example...) If they could sell the bio-diesel for $1.00 per Litre... they could probably afford to pay the donor of the fat about 10c per litre (taking into consideration alternative sources, profit, supply chain etc). That means the average fat donor would receive about 20c.

The liposuction operation would cost maybe $2000 I guess. That means, selling the fat would yield a return of 0.01% of cost to the donor... that's not much of a return.

He's obviously just proposing this so he can laugh up his sleeve at Americans... like a typical lefty, pinko Euro-fag.

I'm sure he'd never suggest that niggers in Africa sell their dead corpses to make cheap protein snacks... a much more realistic plan.

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Typical Euro-trash America bashing. The economics and technicalities of this operation are ridiculous. He's just saying it to make fun of America.

Let's just say they actually did it. They say that they can create 10,000 L of bio-diesel from 11,500 L of fat... I don't believe the conversion efficiency would be that high. Anyway, let's just imagine the figures are accurate... A typical person might give 2L of fat (for example...) If they could sell the bio-diesel for $1.00 per Litre... they could probably afford to pay the donor of the fat about 10c per litre (taking into consideration alternative sources, profit, supply chain etc). That means the average fat donor would receive about 20c.

The liposuction operation would cost maybe $2000 I guess. That means, selling the fat would yield a return of 0.01% of cost to the donor... that's not much of a return.

He's obviously just proposing this so he can laugh up his sleeve at Americans... like a typical lefty, pinko Euro-fag.

I'm sure he'd never suggest that niggers in Africa sell their dead corpses to make cheap protein snacks... a much more realistic plan.

I don't get a kick out fooling people.

Aftenposten where the story is coming from, is the second biggest newspaper over here. Dagens Næringsliv who originally wrote the story, is a dead serious business newspaper without even a sports section.

As of today fat from liposuction is a waste product the hostpitals needs to pay to get rid of, as it is out of the question to use it as animal feed.
IIRC they are going to use the same method they are using for the fish waste, as this starts out as an even more disgusting and smelly.

Also IIRC you don't chemically alter the fat, you just clean it and mayby add something to make it the right consistence, but I agree that only 13% proteins and water sounds little.

[shanemac]

The cost of getting rid of that fat is negligible compared with the revenue collected by performing the liposuction operation.

By contrast, the loss of goodwill (and therefore customers) that would happen if they tried to sell the fat off to make biodiesel would be very significant.

This just does not make sense as a business enterprise.

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The cost of getting rid of that fat is negligible compared with the revenue collected by performing the liposuction operation.

By contrast, the loss of goodwill (and therefore customers) that would happen if they tried to sell the fat off to make biodiesel would be very significant.

This just does not make sense as a business enterprise.

Who said anything about the customers knowing about it?

Did you know that the Norwegian government pays a lot of money to bio-diesel producers as of now?

The strategy is to subsidize bio-diesel production, so that it becomes profitable to develop knowledge and technology to turn different biological wastes into fuel for cars.

I don't blame you for not believing it, as I don't think that most readers are aware of the subsidies and grants.

[Ahknaton]

This reminds me of the bit in Fight Club where Tyler Durden makes soap out of liposuction fat from rich women and "sells their own fat asses back to them".

[Kodos]

This reminds me of the bit in Fight Club where Tyler Durden makes soap out of liposuction fat from rich women and "sells their own fat asses back to them".

Great fucking line.