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Bill Gates invests in company that aims to reduce cow burps

2023-01-24 17:13:44Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Bill Gates invests in company that aims to reduce cow burps
Bill Gates invests in company that aims to reduce cow burps

Billionaire Bill Gates has invested in an Australian climate technology start-up that plans to reduce methane emissions from cow burps.

For a long time now, the founder of Microsoft has raised his voice about the impact that meat production industries have on the environment. Methane is the most common greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide.

Herbivores such as cows, goats and deer produce methane when their stomachs break down tough fiber like grass for digestion.

This fermentation process creates methane gas, which is then mostly excreted again by the organism. Studies have shown that feeding cows with seaweed can significantly reduce the emission of this gas into nature.

Perth-based start-up Rumin8 is working on a dietary supplement, synthetically produced from red seaweed, that stops gas formation.

The company announced in a statement that it had raised $12 million in a funding campaign led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures, which Gates founded in 2015.

The investment firm is also backed by Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos and Chinese entrepreneur and Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma.

In 2019, methane in the atmosphere reached record levels, about two and a half times what it was in the pre-industrial era. What worries scientists is that methane has "muscle" when it comes to warming the planet.

Individual methane molecules have a more powerful warming effect on the atmosphere than single CO2 molecules. Over a 100-year period, methane warms 28 to 34 times more than carbon dioxide.


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