A California-based biotechnology startup has officially launched the world’s first commercially available butter made entirely from carbon dioxide, hydrogen, and oxygen, eliminating the need for traditional agriculture or animal farming. Savor, backed by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates through his Breakthrough Energy Ventures fund, announced the commercial release of its animal- and plant-free butter after three years of development.
The revolutionary product uses a proprietary thermochemical process that transforms carbon dioxide captured from the air, hydrogen from water, and methane into fat molecules chemically identical to those found in dairy butter. According to the company, the process creates fatty acids by heating these gases under controlled temperature and pressure conditions, then combining them with glycerol to form triglycerides.
Bill Gates will eat the real thing anyway.
Edit: this comment is not about Bill Gates. It’s not even about butter.
I don’t get it, what do you mean?
I don’t either. Carbon based butter sounds like a healthier alternative to traditional butter.
I’m having a hard time imagining that tho
If it is exactly the same compounds, how should it be more or less healthy?
less harmful errors from the animal industry like residue antibiotics and hormones.
Less lactose and fats I imagine
If it is exactly the same compounds, it isn’t less of something. If it is less of something it won’t taste like butter.