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Bill Gates-backed startup makes ‘butter’ out of water and carbon dioxide (www.zmescience.com)

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A California-based startup called Savor has figured out a unique way to make a butter alternative that doesn’t involve livestock, plants, or even displacing land. Their butter is produced from synthetic fat made using carbon dioxide and hydrogen, and the best part is —- it tastes just like regular butter.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Sounds like margarine with more chances to shit myself

[–] [email protected] 89 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Margarine is made of hydrogenated oil. This is chemically identical to the fatty acids in butter. It’s not an alternative for dietary purposes, it’s just a more planet friendly solution.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

actual margarine is getting hard to find in stores around here, and when you do it's priced almost as high as a non-sale price of real butter. margarine has 80% fat content and similar baking and cooking properties as butter.

what's on store shelves is a cheapened, watered down product laced with extra chemicals and fillers, ranging from 25-40% oil and can't even make a proper box of mac & cheese. some of them don't even melt when put on toast, hot, right from the toaster.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

What about the trans fat byproduct from margarine production?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I see you didn't read the article

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Basic internet etiquette. Never read the article. Disagree with everyone. You are always right. Everyone else is always wrong etc.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

You are absolutely wrong.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I think it's closer to the coal butter synthesis but maybe they found a more efficient method using other carbon sources

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margarine#Coal_butter

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer%E2%80%93Tropsch_process

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

The process required at least 60 kilograms of coal per kilogram of synthetic butter.