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Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates
- bravesoul2 1y agoDoes this mean you can control the chain length, amount of saturated fat, etc. This does sound really cool. Hope it works out. I guess it works out if it is the cheapest butter on the shelf since that is what motivates many people!
- pfdietz 1y agoThis reminds me a bit of single cell protein, a technology that is also driven by fossil fuel chemical energy. It was used to make animal feed, but ended up being uncompetitive. Technologies like this are ways to monetize stranded natural gas that would otherwise be flared. It's in competition with other means of using that gas or getting that gas to market (ammonia, methanol, electrical energy, LNG, etc.) Eventually they could make this from captured CO2 and green hydrogen, but that's clearly not competitive with cheap gas (without CO2 charges) at this point.
- unnamed76ri 1y agoThe science behind it sounds cool but I don’t think they realize that being associated with Bill Gates is enough to make a lot of people suspicious.
- Rapzid 1y agoI don't think they care. Taste and price is all this will come down to.
- dtagames 1y agoIt requires a lecithin emulsifier and then is "naturally" (artificially) flavored and colored? No thanks.
- gus_massa 1y agoIs there a technical report? Fats have a very specific structure that mix some oxygen in the carbon chain and they are probably very hard to get by inorganic reactions.