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  • Fats from thin air: Startup makes butter using CO2 and water

    07/10/2024 8:35:02 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 60 replies
    New Atlas ^ | JULY 9, 2024 | Bronwyn Thompson
    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...