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Bill Gates-backed startup makes ‘butter’ out of water and carbon dioxide (www.zmescience.com)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Yo this would be great for some actual proper carbon sequestration. Make some butter from the air and pump it back down into the wells.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

It's like a very limited Star Trek replicator. It can make anything you want as long as it's butter.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So I have limitations with videos, but the argument that capturing carbon is costs more energy than it took to put into the air is valid as long as we're still dumping carbon in the air. But, we have to stop putting carbon in the air and we have to start taking it out again.

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

completely agree with you, but until the whole world stops dumping it in the air (classic) carbon capture is worthless. I'm interested if this thing of making butter can be worth it, because you're not just removing CO2, you are also making something that would have required farming a cow, which is much more resource intensive.

I guess we'll need some studies done on the topic