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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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[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 132 points 3 days ago (6 children)

If it's not dairy, is this not margarine rather than butter?

Also, a

proprietary process

Ugh, capitalism

[–] john_lemmy@slrpnk.net 94 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I mean, it was backed by Bill Gates, mr proprietary himself

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

if Gates is Mr Proprietary, Jobs is King Proprietary

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 9 points 3 days ago

Gates

just like he did the vaccines/.(not for himself but for the pharma companies.)

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 28 points 3 days ago

The basic process is not proprietary. It's just the Fischer-Tropsch process. It's been in use since WWII. It produces hydrocarbon chains of arbitrary length from whatever hydrocarbon feedstock you can provide.

Dietary fats are just certain short-chained hydrocarbons accompanied by certain flavorful compounds.

The "proprietary" part is what chemicals they add to the synthesized fat to make it sufficiently comparable to butter.

The Nazis used the same basic process to produce "butter" from coal feedstocks about 90 years ago. This is nothing new.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It is neither plant or animal based, the chemical composition is claimed to be like butter, so it is even less margarine than it is butter. Margarine is hardened plant oil or technically it can also be made from animal fat. So this is neither margarine or butter, it is synthetic butter, since it synthesized chemically, rather than made by the traditional more natural method.

But yes capitalism indeed. Why try to help the world if you can't make money on it? 🙄

[–] JASN_DE@feddit.org 8 points 3 days ago

Yes, this has nothing to do with butter.

[–] Teppichbrand@feddit.org 3 points 3 days ago

Don't say the m-word, it makes milk boys nervous

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

proprietary process

Where the carbon is replaced with butter.