Posted on 07/19/2024 2:55:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates recently backed a California-based startup called Savor that created a new type of butter made from air instead of cows.
The developers of this innovative creation claim that their unique product tastes just like real butter. They also claim it comes with a significantly lower carbon footprint which is fundamentally important for the battle against climate change.
One might wonder how anyone can make butter without milk. Savor claims its process involves using heat to combine carbon dioxide, hydrogen, and oxygen. By doing this, they say that they manage to create chains that mimic the fats of dairy products.
This unique thermochemical process makes the need for animal farming obsolete. Additionally, there is no need for fertilizers, hormones, or antibiotics normally used in the long process of butter production.
On its website, the California-based company writes:
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.”
Gates and the environmental benefits of air butter So what is the point of having cows, you might ask, since we don’t need them anymore? Well, the company is not against cow farming. However, they believe that one of the main advantages of air butter is its potential to significantly reduce the environmental impact of dairy production that is not only associated with butter but also yoghurt, milk, cheese, and other products.
As we all know, livestock farming is one of the main contributors to greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, the global reduction of meat and dairy consumption is crucial for environmental sustainability.
Savor’s butter reportedly has a carbon footprint of less than 0.8 grams of CO2 equivalent per kilogram, compared to 16.9 kilograms for traditional butter.
In a blog post that he posted earlier this year online, Bill Gates passionately advocated for this innovation. The co-founder of Microsoft put his emphasis on the environmental benefits of Savor’s air butter.
He noted that the fact that water usage can be significantly reduced along with the near nullification of greenhouse gas emissions is a great advancement. Publicly supporting a bold start-up, Gates wrote:
“The process doesn’t release any greenhouse gases, and it uses no farmland and less than a thousandth of the water that traditional agriculture does. And most important, it tastes really good—like the real thing, because chemically it is.”
Air butter is for airheads.
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.
Sounds like something Mr. Haney on Green Acres would come up with.
This gotten so creepy.
It is frightening to realize that there are so many stupid and gullible mentally ill people. It’s depressing.
We owe Bill a lot. Butter without the cow! Imagine.
No farts, no flavor and no calories.
Next: bread without flour.
Lisa could put it on “hotscakes”.
Wait, highly processed food is good for us, right?
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.
Where is the Archduke Ferdinand when you need him?
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.
Margarine is a death sentence for the body.
It was a great show with a lot of great running gags.
I, for one, will not be drooling over fats and oils mixed with heat and hydrogen. Sounds like factory food. Nope.
Stolen Nazi technology. They aimed to make diesel fuel and ended up with sandwich spread.
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.
The writing and sight gags still hold up.
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