A COMPANY CALLED SAVOR CAN LITERALLY MAKE REAL BUTTER OUT OF CARBON DIOXIDE
Even if you think the world is flat, you know that there’s some work to be done to save the planet from climate change. And while there are a lot of obvious strategies to do that, countries like America seem loathe to move away from Oil and Coal. In the meantime, we need to work on less obvious strategies to fight climate change. But I never thought that butter (yes, butter!) would be on the list. Because the company Savor has figured out a way to literally make butter out of carbon dioxide. You might only know that as CO2. But you already know there’s more than plenty of that in the world’s atmosphere.
COMBINING CARBON DIOXIDE WITH HYDROGEN MAKES FAT MOLECULE IDENTICAL TO BUTTER FAT
Savor is in Batavia, Illinois. To make all natural butter that doesn’t involve dairy or farming in any way is actually pretty simple: they draw the carbon dioxide from the atmosphere (the air), and hydrogen from water, and turn the two into a molecule of fat that is exactly the same as what you find in the butter you buy in the store. Seriously, it’s identical at the molecular level! And since it’s exactly the same, carbon dioxide butter tastes and melts just like its traditional dairy counterpart. And even better (as butter), it has a really short ingredient list of: (lab-made CO2 fat), water, sunflower lecithin, natural flavor and color.
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MAKING BUTTER FROM CARBON DIOXIDE COULD BE A HUGE STEP IN FIGHTING CLIMATE CHANGE
So how does making butter from carbon dioxide help save the planet? Well, people eat a LOT of butter. And overall, humans making fats and oils for foods accounts for about 7% of global greenhouse-gas emissions. But Savor’s process of making butter from literally thin air doesn’t produce ANY greenhouse gases and only needs 1/1000 of the land needed to make dairy butter. That’s kind of shocking when you consider the numbers. Making carbon dioxide butter on a large scale could really help fight climate change. Savor the company receives backing from Breakthrough Energy Ventures which is an investment fund started by Bill Gates.
We could see made-from-thin-air butter this coming holiday season, and actual sticks of world-saving butter on your store’s shelf in 2027.
