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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Cows become obsolete?...................
If they could make fat disappear into thin air, then they’d have something.
Headline is a lie. They aren’t making butter. At best, they’re making margarine.
Jut more of Bill Gates Bull ,LOL
First they came for meat. Then they came for butter. Then they came for...
He was writing a menu....
Grotesquely misleading headline.
Ick.
Ack!
5.56mm
IOW, it is not butter. Prolly as unhealthy as oleo margarine.
Remove CO2 from the air so all the plants die and then we die but we’ll have fake butter ,LOL
This sounds just like the “Crude oil from turkey offal” that was being touted several years ago.
False hope fomented by big money. Besides, would YOU personally trust ANYTHING pushed by Mr. Gates since his true nature has been revealed?
But it’s been let out of the bag that the climate is cooling, why do we need this?
“...thermochemical process...”
Doesn’t sound very appetizing, or good for the environment, either.
Psychopath Bill Gates the enemy of Real Food
Nope.
No more miracle breakthroughs from Bill Gates.
If he actually wanted to do something worthwhile, he’d put all his billions into production of clean water. All this other garbage is ego-driven showboating and potentially population-reducing.
AKA hydrogenation. AKA, Oleo. AKA Margarine.
But throw on the “green friendly” stamp of approval and the Whole Foods crowd will buy it up.
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.
“Headline is a lie. They aren’t making butter. At best, they’re making margarine.”
Butter is the fatty carbohydrate with animal protein (in low amounts, though) made from animal milk, plus any other additives (salt, coloring, etc.). If only Carbon Dioxide and Water are used, only the fatty carbohydrate can be made; they will have to add protein in some fashion, in order for it to be butter. Without that, it will be edible stripped down butter. Margarine is edible animal or vegetable fats or oils mixed with water and animal milk products and other added ingredients, to make a spreadable product. So, the product they’ll be making is closer to true butter than margarine.
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