CarbonCure does not build plants, it licenses its technology to concrete producers
Fucking assholes. Just license it openly if you actually want to help the world
Gates never cared about saving anyone. Only cares about making cash of them. Saving lifes is a biproduct, not the intent.
If crushing babies with a ball-peen hammer made more he would.
He invented a great story about himself though.
The annoying part of this for me is that Gates' name needs to be dropped in, presumably to get attention. But so it goes.
It's interesting to see that the concept of butter in the comments seems to be a significant trigger for a bunch of people (in the /c/science posting of this article). This is another level to the problem.
But the main problem which no one seems to have commented on (maybe because it is mentioned at the end of the article) is, like many animal product substitutes, production cost and scaling.
Animal products are so embedded and subsidised (and/or at least true externized costs ignored), and politically connected, potential eco-friendly alternatives like this have a really extra hard time getting off the ground even if I could one day be cheaper.
You know that anything with synthetic carbon sequestration (sucking out of the air, saving somewhere) is likely to need tons of energy?
Plants are already fine at what they do.
We just need a way to use them better:
I.e. also no Biofuels
Awesome
Sounds kinda like Ersatz butter made from coal (yes coal), no?
Coal butter even tastes like regular butter according the history books.
The problem with Ersatz butter (oleo) is that it’s a mixture of hexa-, hepta-, and octa-esters of sucrose with various long chain fatty acids. The resulting radial arrangement is too large and irregular to move through the intestinal wall and be absorbed into the bloodstream.
What Savor has supposedly created is chemically identical to the fatty acids in butter. It’s not made of new compounds, but it’s made in an animal and planet friendly way.
i.e. not really healthy? Butter is not healthy, is it?
Nobody said this was healthy
But margarine is healthy often, at least fine
Eh... it's just a bit less bad than cow milk butter.
Finally a use for old coal mines
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