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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.

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[–] BigTrout75@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

The planet can be saved! We just need to eat CO2 HO butter.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

Did you eat your butter quota today? Do your part!

[–] Artisian@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I assume we sequester it when we poop? I don't know what we do with human waste sludge. And I'm not sure I'm brave enough to google for myself.

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

We breathe most out all day long. Just note that direct human emissions are irrelevant.

[–] anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 hours ago

We have bacteria break it down to create biogas, wich we burn for energy, and sludge wich we burn and put the ashes in landfills or back on the fields as fertilizer.
You can rest assured that all the carbon makes it to the atmosphere, one way or another.