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

submitted 3 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 3 months ago (4 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.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

How does the cost per co2 captured compare to planting more trees? Or is this just another VC scam?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

finally someone did the thing everybody wanted

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wait. So a "butter star" is possible?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Once one is discovered, there will be a NASA mission to bake a gigantic loaf of bread and launch it at the butter star.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 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 3 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 3 months ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

So they invented another kind of margarine.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The problem with making carbon into butter is it will just be released once someone eats it and burns off the calories. BUT, I think you can make soap from just about any oil. So you could turn carbon from the air into fake butter, turn that fake butter into soap, and then store the soap in caves, solving any potential soap shortages for the next several millennia while also solving the climate crisis.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Butter is already made from carbon. They’re creating the same hydrocarbon chains that are in the fatty acids that butter is comprised of, just without the cow.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (7 children)

Also, for anyone who thinks that carbon bound up in fatty acid chains in butter is released back into the atmosphere through metabolism, I will direct your attention to the population US Midwest and Great Plains. These people have been proving that you can effectively sequester butter for many decades.

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