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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] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So this new carbon sequestering program is going to be kind of a good news / bad news thing. ..

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

There are ≈950 gigatons of excess CO2 in the atmosphere 27% of that by weight is carbon, the us population is 333milion, so if every American eats 770lbs of carbon sequestered butter we will solve climate change.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Of course the danger is that this is cancelled out by increased carbon emissions from a making a commensurate amount of toast.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Just got to start deep frying our steaks in this new butter and we'll get there in no time