Posted on 07/10/2024 8:35:02 AM PDT by Red Badger
Bill Gates has thrown his weight – and his money – behind a Californian startup that believes it can make a rich, fatty spread akin to butter, using just carbon dioxide and hydrogen. And 'butter' is just the start, with milk, ice-cream, cheese, meat and tropical oils also in development.
The San Jose company, Savor, uses a thermochemical process to create its animal-like fat, which is free of the environmental footprint of both the dairy industry and plant-based alternatives.
"They started with the fact that all fats are made of varying chains of carbon and hydrogen atoms," Gates wrote in a blog post. "Then they set out to make those same carbon and hydrogen chains – without involving animals or plants. They ultimately developed a process that involves taking carbon dioxide from the air and hydrogen from water, heating them up, and oxidizing them to trigger the separation of fatty acids and then the formulation of fat."
Many of us know the stats – according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), livestock are responsible for 14.5% of all global greenhouse gas emissions, and animal-fat alternatives that use palm oil contribute to widespread deforestation and biodiversity loss – but also know how delicious dairy products are. So will Gates' enthusiastic support be enough to get people excited about butter made from CO2?
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> “akin to butter”
Skip.
I will listen to Gates after we can go a full month without any critical Windows vulnerabilities.
The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics will not be repealed any time soon................
Imitation margarine, to go on a fake London broil fresh from the biolab.
Bon Appétit!
OK, thank you.
Like hydrogenated peanut butter, or Crisco, etc.
I once had someone tell me, never put any hydrogenated fat into your veins, because that’s where it will set up.
Thank you for facts!
Yes, and to make this margarine, they need a lot of energy!
Preferably from burning fossil fuels!
In bottom line, it will contribute to Co2 in atmosphere!
Yo gates...
screw bum !
We have fake news, fake food, fake women, fake men, fake Pope, fake president, fake climate, and now they want us to believe they can make fake butter. To hell with all the fakery, give me my authentic sweet cream butter everyday. As a young boy, I churned many a crook of cream into butter for Mom. It was the real deal. She would scoop the fresh churned butter out of the buttermilk, roll it up in 2 pound rolls in butcher paper and freeze it. I’m 80 and I have enjoyed real butter all my life and I ain’t changing now. There’s way too much fakery in the world today for humanity’s own good.
“Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.”
Same here. My DIL has developed a dairy allergy after her second child. No cheese or butter. Really hampers cooking
IOW, they are to nuclear power what Microsoft is to software?
For a time in Germany, margarine was made from coal. Yum.
For a time in Germany, gasoline was made from coal...........
“At best, they’re making margarine.”
Until we see butter suppliers advertising “Tastes as good as margarine” then `ol Wild Bill’s BSButter isn’t going to make it out of the lab.
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All of these Godless fools doing everything they can to save the planet.
In the meantime, God has a people who are looking for his soon appearing. When he will return to take us home and will destroy this earth to recreate it for us to abide. It’s all explained in Revelation.
Eating CO2 gives me a fever.
Actually it did work. But the turkey processing people began to charge for turkey guts. At that point it became unprofitable.
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