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

submitted 11 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] 67 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Sounds like margarine with more chances to shit myself

[–] [email protected] 89 points 11 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 11 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 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

What about the trans fat byproduct from margarine production?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I see you didn't read the article

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 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 11 months ago

You are absolutely wrong.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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] 2 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah we already been through this bull shit.

No, fuck u corpo daddy.