美國(guó)一家初創(chuàng)企業(yè)成功地以水和空氣為原料制造出了黃油替代品，而且該企業(yè)的贊助人比爾·蓋茨品嘗后表示，這種人造黃油味道很不錯(cuò)。

Savor, a California-based startup backed by legendary businessman Bill Gates, has come up with a method of producing butter-like fat out of just carbon dioxide and hydrogen.
傳奇企業(yè)家比爾·蓋茨贊助的美國(guó)加州初創(chuàng)企業(yè)Savor開發(fā)了一種僅用二氧化碳和氫氣就能造出黃油狀脂肪的技術(shù)。

Starting from the idea that all fats are composed of chains of carbon and hydrogen atoms, Savor patented a thermochemical process to build fat molecules and then produce dairy-free alternatives to products like milk, butter, cheese, and ice cream that not only have the same texture as the real thing but also taste the same. This process doesn’t release any greenhouse gases, and it uses no farmland and less than a thousandth of the water that traditional agriculture does, so this synthesized fat has a much lower carbon footprint than real animal fat. So far, taste tests have shown that Savor’s alternative to butter has an almost indistinguishable flavor from the real thing, but the company still has a lot of challenges to overcome before bringing it to market.
Savor公司的這一專利技術(shù)基于所有脂肪都是由碳原子鏈和氫原子鏈組成的原理，通過(guò)熱化學(xué)過(guò)程構(gòu)建出脂肪分子，從而生產(chǎn)出牛奶、黃油、奶酪、冰淇淋等產(chǎn)品的無(wú)乳替代品，這種新產(chǎn)品不僅質(zhì)地和真正的乳制品相似，而且味道也相差無(wú)幾。整個(gè)過(guò)程不釋放任何溫室氣體，無(wú)需農(nóng)田耕作，所消耗的水也不到傳統(tǒng)農(nóng)業(yè)生產(chǎn)過(guò)程的千分之一，因此這種人工合成脂肪的碳足跡遠(yuǎn)低于真正的動(dòng)物脂肪。迄今為止的品嘗測(cè)試均顯示，Savor公司的黃油替代品口感和真黃油幾乎難以分辨，不過(guò)該公司還需要克服許多挑戰(zhàn)才能將其推向市場(chǎng)。

"We are currently pre-commercial and working through regulatory approval to be able to sell our butter,” Kathleen Alexander, CEO of Savor, said. “We are not expecting to be able to move forward with any kind of sales until at least 2025.”
Savor公司的首席執(zhí)行官凱思琳·亞歷山大表示：“我們目前還處于商業(yè)化前的階段，需要經(jīng)過(guò)監(jiān)管機(jī)構(gòu)審批才能銷售我們的黃油。我們預(yù)計(jì)至少要等到2025年才可能上市?！?/p>

In a recent blog post, Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates explained that Savor has a real shot of coming up with a successful butter alternative, because their version “tastes really good – like the real thing, because chemically it is.”
微軟創(chuàng)始人兼慈善家比爾·蓋茨在最近的一篇博客文章中解釋道，Savor公司生產(chǎn)的這種黃油替代品很可能會(huì)取得成功，因?yàn)樵摦a(chǎn)品“味道真的很不錯(cuò)，就和真黃油一樣，因?yàn)榛瘜W(xué)成分也一樣?！?/p>

Gates wrote: “They ultimately developed a process that involves taking carbon dioxide from the air and hydrogen from water, heating them up, and oxidizing them to trigger the separation of fatty acids and then the formulation of fat.”
蓋茨寫道：“他們最終開發(fā)出一套生產(chǎn)流程：從空氣中提取二氧化碳，從水中提取氫氣，將其加熱，使其氧化，以觸發(fā)脂肪酸的分離，然后就形成了脂肪?！?/p>

The tech billionaire also highlighted the importance of animal food alternatives like Savor’s version of butter in reducing our carbon footprint. The livestock industry contributes 14.5 percent of global greenhouse emissions, and with human population on the rise, emissions are also expected to go up, unless we do something about it.
這位科技億萬(wàn)富翁還強(qiáng)調(diào)了Savor黃油這樣的動(dòng)物性食品替代品對(duì)于減少人類碳足跡的重要性。畜牧業(yè)的溫室氣體排放量占據(jù)了全球總排放量的14.5%，隨著全球人口增加，溫室氣體排放量也會(huì)增加，除非我們采取對(duì)策。

"The big challenge is to drive down the price so that products like Savor’s become affordable to the masses – either the same cost as animal fats or less,” Gates wrote.
蓋茨寫道：“壓低價(jià)格是一大挑戰(zhàn)，Savor公司的產(chǎn)品定價(jià)必須能夠?yàn)榇蟊娝邮埽磁c動(dòng)物脂肪產(chǎn)品價(jià)格持平，要么更低?！?/p>

CO2 and hydrogen-synthesized butter is apparently just the beginning. Savor has plans to make milk, cheese, and ice cream, among others, in the not-so-distant future.
顯然，用二氧化碳和氫氣合成黃油只是開始。Savor公司計(jì)劃在不久的將來(lái)制造出人工合成的牛奶、奶酪和冰淇淋等產(chǎn)品。

英文來(lái)源：Oddity Central

編譯：丹妮

審校：萬(wàn)月英、齊磊