Breakthrough Energy Catalyst Invests $40 Million in Deep Sky Carbon Removal
Breakthrough Energy Catalyst — Gates's industrial decarbonisation investment vehicle — committed $40 million to Deep Sky, a Quebec-based company developing commercial direct air capture facilities across Canada. The investment marked Catalyst's first in the DAC sector. Deep Sky's Alpha facility in Alberta is designed as a testing ground for multiple next-generation carbon removal technologies, with the goal of proving the cost trajectory needed to make DAC viable at planetary scale.
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March 2025
Breakthrough Energy Ventures Invests in Savor — Butter Made Directly from Carbon
Breakthrough Energy Ventures backed Savor, a startup that produces butter using carbon dioxide and hydrogen — derived from atmospheric carbon and water — without any conventional agriculture, animals, or farmland. Savor's thermochemical process generates saturated fat with an identical molecular profile to dairy butter while using an estimated 99.9 percent less water and zero agricultural land. The product launched at Michelin-starred restaurants in 2025, with supermarket availability targeted for 2027, as part of Gates's broader bet on food-system decarbonisation.
March 2024
Harvard permanently terminates Gates-funded SCoPEx geoengineering experiment under public pressure
Harvard University announced it was permanently abandoning the Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment — the small-scale stratospheric aerosol balloon experiment Gates had helped fund through FICER. Principal investigator Professor Frank Keutsch stated he was no longer pursuing the experiment, which would have released a tiny amount of calcium carbonate 12 miles above the Arctic. The cancellation came after years of public controversy, opposition from indigenous communities in Sweden where a test flight had been planned, and scientific debate about whether even small field experiments risked normalizing geoengineering before adequate governance frameworks existed.
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