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Ha, ha, so true pheonix. And it was baked before the car was even invented! |
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A car has already been made that runs on vegetable oil. Fats and oils are both lipids, so baked again. |
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Also, how were you planning to get the fat out of your body assuming you're not talking about exercise? |
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Implanted fat line plugs into the fuel pump intake of the engine. |
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Or for the environmentally-conscious wannabee skinny: fat-powered liposuction. |
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Your idea is somewhat unclear, and I take it there are 2 possible meanings.
1. If you mean "human powered vehicle," then say it. Saying "fat powered engine" to mean "human powered vehicle" is faux clever, disingenuous, orwellian, marketdroid speak.
2. If you really intend for human fat to be extracted from a body for fuel purposes, in "real time," then provide a mechanism. Otherwise it is just WIBNI magical.
Fishbone unless you can provide me a third interpretation. |
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Actually, georgie, the first steam-powered cars pre-date the first bicycle. |
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seal: a faster, more painless way to extract fat - pop a
couple of xenacals. |
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Thingy, your right. I stand corrected. |
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what if one runs out of fat? with no fast food place in sight? |
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i dont wanna pay for that kind of food bill... are we thinking economicaly here or just wishing you didnt have the love handles? what about people who have faster motabolisms?... "excuse me sir... could you lend me a bit of your fat ... im all out and i really have to get to my track meet" if we REALLY wanna put fat to energy ... we all switch to electric cars and at the gym the bikes and tredmills are used to produce energy instead of take it ... that is about as close as you are going to get... sorry |
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<what if one runs out of fat? with no fast food place in sight?
gastello, May 13 2002 >
There is no such place. |
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// There's no such place. // |
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Sure there is. Siberia. I'm going there in 4 days. |
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Oh. Make sure you refrain from driving any fat-powered cars while there. |
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not quite the same, but... diesel engines were originally developed to run on vegetable oils. Two friends of mine have been cruising around Australia for the last three years, powered by used fry oil they scavenge from round the back of road-houses. The engine is an unmodified, street legal diesel. They have a second tank for the oil, with a heat pipe coming off the radiator to keep it liquid. Start on diesel from the main tank, and switch to vegetable oil when the system has warmed up. Then everywhere you go, your car smells like fish and chips. |
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Course, there's a certain amount of filtering involved :) |
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http://www.ata.org.au/76veggieoil.pdf |
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Still, it doesn't do anything about the human fat problem; in fact, by driving around smelling of tasty snack treats, it could conceivably make it worse... |
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[BunsenHoneydew], Please use the link feature. It's there for you to use, courtesy of [jutta]. I added your link for you this time. |
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Also, try reading the help files under "meta" to your left. |
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mrthingy, the Fred Flintstone foot powered car predates both steam & bicycles.. (so does the original 'hobby horse', which really DID exist!) |
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You guys should have stuck to your gun in this one -
as it took until 2007 / 2008 for firstly a guy on his
boat to use his own fat as biofuel, and in 2008 for a
plastic surgeon to power his SUV for the lipo fat (not
his admittedly). |
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"Waist not, want not ...." |
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hmm... Engines are more efficient than people... so stuffing your face then running an ICE from the resultant fat is a carbon neutral exercise. |
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That depends on how much energy is consumed by the fat-
removal process. |
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