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.”
created a new type of butter made from air
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It is called Butt-Air
“FBG”
Because margarine was so good for us and worked out so well for us.
““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 “”
Please give us the recipe, Bill so we can be sure to get the measurements right!!! Also to make sure we have the right measuring cups and spoons or do we have to buy new??
Sounds like snake oil butter
LOL. Yep, the dude was a trip. Eddie Albert was the only one, with an ounce of common sense.
He got done in.
where do you get thin air? Mountaintops?
A lot of the time I feel like Mr Douglas being a sane person surrounded by the insane and bizarre.
There are times when Bill Gates seems to be made up from thin air.
It’s marginalirine and he should eat 20 sticks of it on livestream just so I can laugh and laugh and laugh...
And they can make Gold from Lead in a Particle Accelerator.
Too bad it costs way more that way than getting it from nature.
I bet Gates’ oleo costs much more to produce than real butter or even ‘real’ oleo.
Didn’t Arnold get hostile, if anyone changed the TV channel?
“It isn’t butter, it’s craptastic margarine “
They mimic the fats in butter, not margerine.
MILKING cows when I was a kid & the power went out was hard enough.....
I still cannot guess how hard it is to milk an almond.
Yes it was hilarious. They were good actors, cuz I saw interviews with Tom Lester and Alvy Moore, and they were quite sane and very articulate. 👍
Yes and the machine that makes the butter comes with invisible uniforms that must be worn to make the butter.
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