Comment on Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates

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kattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Butter is rather low volume, so maybe it’s doable. But it’s very hard to compete with self-replicating organisms that have evolved specifically to use the energy sources, materials and conditions that are abundant on this planet. I’d be more more interested if someone had made a plant make butter.

Having a bunch of machinery sit idle waiting for power to be cheap isn’t particularly good use of resources either. We’d be better off trying to store the power.

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