Bill Gates Backs Startup That Makes Butter From Thin Air

Greek Reporter ^ | July 19, 2024 | Nick Kampouris

[nickcarraway]

Is there anything Bill Gates won't do for the public?

[blueunicorn6]

Air butter is for airheads.

[wildcard_redneck]

It isn’t butter, it’s craptastic margarine and anyone that thinks it is healthy is a fool. Bill Gates would never eat the junk he is trying to force us to eat. I hope he burns in hell.

[wally_bert]

Sounds like something Mr. Haney on Green Acres would come up with.

[ChildOfThe60s]

This gotten so creepy.

It is frightening to realize that there are so many stupid and gullible mentally ill people. It’s depressing.

[GaltAdonis]

Does it go well with the bugs?

[ABStrauss]

We owe Bill a lot. Butter without the cow! Imagine.

No farts, no flavor and no calories.

Next: bread without flour.

[blueunicorn6]

Lisa could put it on “hotscakes”.

[nickcarraway]

Wait, highly processed food is good for us, right?

[Yo-Yo]

[wally_bert]

Those “hotscakes” would be even better head gasket material than the original shown in the episode about Oliver getting apples to the market in an antique truck.

[Empire_of_Liberty]

Where is the Archduke Ferdinand when you need him?

[ChildOfThe60s]

Every time crack an egg into hot butter I am so conflicted about my carbon footprint.

I can’t explain the agony I suffer each time I fart or burp. And I like beans a lot.

Guilt is tearing me apart.

[politicket]

Just like when they lied about the dangers of butter and the healthy qualities of margarine.

Margarine is a death sentence for the body.

[blueunicorn6]

It was a great show with a lot of great running gags.

[Lizavetta]

Grecian Delight supports Greece “We start with a source of carbon, like carbon dioxide, and use a little bit of heat and hydrogen to form chains which are then blended with oxygen from the air to make the fats & oils we know, love and drool over.”

I, for one, will not be drooling over fats and oils mixed with heat and hydrogen. Sounds like factory food. Nope.

[I-ambush]

Stolen Nazi technology. They aimed to make diesel fuel and ended up with sandwich spread.

[Stosh]

Conversion of CO2 to saturated carbon chains is a highly endothermic (energy-using) process - we know this because the reverse (burning anything with carbon chains, including butter) gives off gobs of heat - exothermic to such an extent that it’s our main source of useful energy.

That’s why we mostly let plants turn CO2 into useful organic compounds, and then let animal turn those plants into stuff we can convert to butter.

So unless these folks have found a cheap, readily-available, environmentally-friendly source of unused energy, I’m not real sure why they’re so excited.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

The Nazis made butter from coal. Nazi Coal Butter
 

[wally_bert]

The writing and sight gags still hold up.