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Bill Gates-backed startup makes ‘butter’ out of water and carbon dioxide (www.zmescience.com)

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A California-based startup called Savor has figured out a unique way to make a butter alternative that doesn’t involve livestock, plants, or even displacing land. Their butter is produced from synthetic fat made using carbon dioxide and hydrogen, and the best part is —- it tastes just like regular butter.

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[–] Asetru@feddit.org 22 points 4 months ago (2 children)

During WW2, due to the food shortage, Germans did this using the carbon from coal... The process is old and known.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margarine#Coal_butter

Let's see if the process can be made more efficient this time. Allegedly, the product was virtually indistinguishable from butter.

[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 months ago

Allegedly, the product was virtually indistinguishable from butter.

Well it says

Margarine made from them was found to be nutritious and of agreeable taste

Doesn't sound indistinguishable to me.

[–] derpgon@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

It is just regular margarine, and for me, it is inedible. Tastes like vaseline.