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Whale Oil Revisited

 Liposuction for Cetaceans?
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The search for renewable fuels has missed a previously exploited source - whales! Why not use hollow harpoons, and liposuck out blubber? The whales would survive to be routinely 'harvested', like sheep shearing. It would be in everyone's interest to ensure the proliferation of whales and other oil-rich critters that could be used as a renewable supply of alternative fuel.
—MacGuyver, Jun 27 2007

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       Whales rely on the blubber to maintain their body temperature, and even if you could find enough whales to tap for fuelmaking purposes, any loss of blubber could very adversely effect their chances for long-term survival. Also, blubber isn't anything like typical fat: it's very firm, almost like a rubbery soap. Liposucking that would be very difficult.   

       Better to go whaling at the Golden Corral.
—elhigh, Jun 28 2007
   

       I've participated in the harpooning of this idea, but the poster gets credit for sheer chutzpah. That would be some grumpy whale wrestling going on.
—normzone, Jun 28 2007
   


 

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