Hey, kids — it’s trivia time. But don’t sweat today’s question because it’s an easy one.
What do you get when you take carbon dioxide captured from the atmosphere, hydrogen from water split by renewable energy, and glycerol, then use proprietary catalysts in high-pressure bubble reactors to synthesize hydrocarbon chains, oxidize them into fatty acids, esterify them into triglycerides that mimic the molecular structure of a common fat, and finally blend and crystallize the result, before extruding it into four-ounce sticks?
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Something very much but not exactly like butter!
See, I told you this was an easy one.
But don’t all rush to the store at once. Backed by investments from Bill Gates’s Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Savor’s Frankenbutter (not its actual name) won’t reach grocery
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