*Mr Fusion pic*

Exxon green is people!

Great! How many barrels of that stuff can you supply a day? If it's less than the 80something million barrels a day of oil that the world uses, then you're SOL.

On the "Fat as fuel" surgeon:
"His actions far from impressed authorities, who began an investigation into his practice. He later left the country to take up volunteer work in Brazil. "-FTA


You know who else fled to brazil after things went a little south? And innocent men don't flee the country usually..

Couldn't we build electricity producing treadmills and make all the people on food stamps and welfare run during the hours they would normally be working?

We could also use prisoners and illegal aliens.

Soylent Green?

Alonjar: Somaticasual: On the "Fat as fuel" surgeon:
"His actions far from impressed authorities, who began an investigation into his practice. He later left the country to take up volunteer work in Brazil. "-FTA


You know who else fled to brazil after things went a little south? And innocent men don't flee the country usually..

I don't really see the big deal.. its not like the fat was going to be used for any greater purpose... and the patients got to choose if the fat was used for the fuel or not.

oh using the fat itself is a decent idea. And it says the clients all agreed and wanted him to use it apparently. And it's surprisingly eco-friendly for a plastic surgeon.

The doc's just a suspicious bastard, but they wouldn't have launched an investigation just for the fat thing i suspect. There were almost certainly other reasons

Grapple: My son ought to get about 100 Miles to the Diaper then. He's a big pooper.

That was my first thought too - I have two in diapers now. We'll be rich!

astralvortex: I wonder how many miles you get to the fat ass.

I'm not fat! I'm chock full of alternative energy!

Terra Nova sounds intriguing, but Sci Fi Author Julian May had a similar idea in her series:The Saga of Pliocene Exile. So the new premise of the series is not so original.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. suggested chicken guano.

Personally, I think wood and hay would be very nice.You can throw in a nice chunk of something aromatic like hickory, cedar or tobacco to scent your smoke, or add some chemicals to make different coloured flames. This assumes, of course, that you have a glass viewing window in your burner. On a cool summer evening, the scent of burning meadow or forest might be a pleasant old-timey addition to life in country lanes.

And, since fuel will inevitably become very costly, companies can vie with each other to make popular scents and spectacular fireworks displays.

Take Oprah, for example, a heady perfume with hints of chickory and nut, or GOP, straight Bull shiat.

Then there's Tea Bagger--it smells like a nice pot of tea and best of all it's totally subsidized by insane hard right wing billionaires so it's one of the cheapest mixes around, despite having several words misspelled on the drum.

Van Jones, heady, green, with a hint of spice.

Al Gore--a very rich fuel mix containing allergins that will make every so-called Conservative within miles plotz. Not only will it reek of hay, lettuce, ragweed pollen and honey, but it will produce a cloud of smug that will smother Republicans in rage. It will literally take your breath away.

My own favourite will be, of course, Merde d'oie. It will smell of morning wood fires, eider down, roast duck, burning stubble, Christmas dinners, pine, fir with just a hint of goose shiat to remind you of the mighty Canada Goose and cool autumn evenings closing in on November 11, Feast Day of Saint Martin of Tours and the day that the geese are traditionally killed for winter.

I for one, welcome my wood-burning overlords, in their posh straw hats and wicker automobubble frames, and their chauffeurs standing on the real fender throwing in more coal with a little shovel, or man-handling chunks of birch and elm into the hopper of the burner.