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Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates (www.cbsnews.com)

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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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[–] Dragomus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It kind of sounds like the beginnings of star trek's replicators...

But that aside, somehow I doubt those are the exact only "ingredients" they use.
And it wouldn't surprise me at all if the end product contains all kinds of trace elements of various not so healthy chemicals used to get the parts to combine into the actual butter.
Like the process to get the glycerol or lecithin in a state they can use.

Ofcourse a lot of our dietary ingredients are contaminated in various levels anyway.

[–] UnpledgedCatnapTipper@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago

It makes me think of Enterprise, where they don't have replicators but they do have protein resequencers, which can take waste matter and convert it into useful things, but they can't do energy to matter conversion yet.