Fats from thin air: Startup makes butter using CO2 and water

New Atlas ^ | JULY 9, 2024 | Bronwyn Thompson

[SaveFerris]

O.K.

That one was funny

[PUGACHEV]

"If they could make fat disappear into thin air, then they’d have something."

Surprisingly, it does. After losing quite a bit of weight recently, I asked my nutritionist where it actually goes. She explained that most of it is broken down and exhaled.

At the same time, I once caught an amoeba while eating some delicious tamales from a street vendor in Mexico City. I lost thirty pounds in less than two weeks.

[catnipman]

"rich, fatty spread akin to butter ... animal-like fat"

already been done:

"They started with the fact that all fats are made of varying chains of carbon and hydrogen atoms," Gates wrote in a blog post."

right, bill ... and starting with the fact that humans are mostly just oxygen, hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, and trace amounts of a few others, it should be a snap to make a human, right? ... naturally using a thermochemical process twhich without involving animals or plants and which is free of the environmental footprint of both the dairy industry and plant-based alternatives.

the chemistry of organic plants and animals used for foods is so simple, even an ignorant billionaire can explain it ...

[Flaming Conservative]

Mmmm. Frankenfood. No thanks!

[gnarledmaw]

SE quarter of US thinks cows live in the same place as unicorns.

I went on vacation a few years back and the further south and east I went the harder it was to find dairy. There was a coffee shop I stopped in that didnt have any cream, just a whole bunch of creamers. I asked in a couple of different restaurants for butter and they came walking back with a bottle of squeeze Parkay. Im guessing that somewhere down there are vast caves full of all of that crap the rest of us threw out in the 80s. I thought that garbage was banned by the Geneva convention or something.

I guess the 80s when people knew these things had proper names is a long time ago...

So if one of the researchers is kinda hefty and IDENTIFIES as a cow then Im pretty sure it legally counts as butter in the present day starting in Tennessee and going south east from there.

[Notthemomma]

“If they could make fat disappear into thin air, then they’d have something.”

When you “lose weight” by “burning fat”(CxHxOx), it produces carbon dioxide (CO2) and water (H2O), so that’s exactly where fat goes, into the air. Already done, by the creator of the universe.

[vpintheak]

Just toss in some “harmless” chemicals and BAM! Butter baby!
What a pant load.

[Sacajaweau]

see....told ya....

[Trumpet 1]

If they go to live on the Moon or Mars they will need such technologies. Here on Earth, maybe after the global nuclear war. Or maybe it could be used to make motor oil. Or to turn plastic garbage into Lego toy bricks which could be scaled up into affordable storage shed building blocks for a do it yourself garage.

[SaveFerris]

[I guarantee you the psychotic Bill Gates eats only the finest real food. If he eats any junk food it’s a few favorites that he learned to like it as a kid. There will be no frankenmeat or bug kibble on his table.]

Bugs - it's what the WEF (World Economic Forum) says every one else can eat for dinner - while THEY, the Globalist Elites, dine on lobster, steak, etc.

[SaveFerris]

[according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), livestock are responsible for 14.5% of all global greenhouse gas emissions]

Once again, the United Nations awaits their Antichrist.

[curious7]

If you eliminate most or all food animals, and create the needed food in a factory, you have loads more control over the existing populace.

[mabarker1]

making margarine.

And that's just a few degrees in temperature and pressure from being Plastic...

[dfwgator]

Eating Bugs?

[fastrock]

Gates is funding his nuke power company called Terra Power. But when you look at Terra they gathered (stolen) already existing tech and ideas. Terra proposed plant is a S5W sub power plant on steroids and the modular construction design was Westinghouse’s AP1000 plant.
But if he can market it to the greenie cultist as climate saving so they don’t intervene at every NRC (nuke reg comm) hearing, I’m neutral on his hands n $$$ being on it.
Oh Yeah, Terra is pushing for a single license issuance from the NRC rather than multi-stage licensing. This again was being proposed 20+ years ago by the nuke industry and INPO.

[SaveFerris]

I think I remember that one

[Trumpette1954]

What is it with these people and their fake food? Humans are not made to eat that stuff.

[PGR88]

How does the total energy needed to create fake animal-fats in a lab compare to the total energy consumed and expended by a cow to produce the same fats naturally?

I would bet they are probably the same, or even favoring the cow.

[bk1000]

At some point we will have had a bellyful of this nonsense and respond.
The first time I am told I cannot have animal products and must rely on chemical nonsense will be the last thing that person tells me.

[imabadboy99]

These people are sick.