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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] 3 points 5 months ago

Nobody,

My darling,

Could call me

A fussy man -

BUT

I do like a little bit of butter to my bread!"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

I mean cool, but if farts release CO2 after digestion breaks down fats and proteins, then it's not much of a carbon sink, is it? Not to mention the scale necessary to reverse climate change. We'd have to make billions of barrels of the stuff, then pump it deep underground for long term sequestration. It'll be so energy intensive we'll require nuclear fusion.