Bill Gates Takes Aim At Large Cattle Farms With Latest Investment As The Billionaire Looks To Take On Global Warming Through Reducing Methane Output
pursue business tycoons Bill GatesInvesting has become something of a spectator sport in recent years, and there are plenty of reasons for that.
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Gates is a smart businessman, and when he believes in something enough to put his money into it, there has to be an edge. To that end, Benzinga is keeping a close eye on Gate’s market moves and has determined that one of its recent investments could go a long way toward alleviating the climate crisis.
About Windfall Bio
Windfall Bio is a startup that specifically targets methane emissions large cattle ranches, which is one of the main sources of methane in the atmosphere. Climate scientists are concerned about methane emissions because they are a major contributor to the climate crisis.
According to some estimates, methane gas is almost 90% more powerful than carbon dioxide as a driver of global warming, and almost 25% of global methane emissions come from growing food. This will account for nearly half a degree of global warming by 2050. Windfall Bio tries to solve this problem in a unique way. The methane that comes from large farms and cattle is usually found in waste products.
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When you have tens of thousands of cows eating grass and relieving themselves – which almost all macro farms do – there is a ton of waste that turns to methane under the hot sun. Windfall Bio has developed a process that uses methanotrophs, naturally occurring microbes found in soil that eat methane. Better yet, the methanotrophs convert methane into fertilizer.
Farmers put Windfall Bio’s methane-eating microbes into their soil, turning the animal waste from chicken, pig or cattle farms into organic fertilizer. Windfall has proprietary management software that allows farmers to track their fertilizer production. The technology is important because reducing methane emissions from commercial farms around the world is more feasible than having the entire world change its eating habits overnight.
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If Windfall Bio’s technology can be scaled to a global scale and used by the world’s largest farms, it has the potential to reduce methane emissions enough to lower global temperatures by half a degree Celsius by 2050. Half a degree drop in global temperatures is equivalent to one-third of the 1.5 degree target reduction in temperature the world needs to achieve to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
It’s not hard to see why this is the kind of startup investment that’s right down Gates’ alley. It has profit potential while helping to solve one of humanity’s most pressing problems in the next century. Investors who follow Gates’ market movements should also be aware of this. Keep an eye out for Windfall Bio. It could be a game changer.
Investing in startups
In fact, thanks to changes in federal law, anyone can invest in top startups, even outside of tycoons like Bill Gates. For example, some of the earliest investors in today’s public Heliogen Inc Were actually small investors, then later invested Bill Gates. Qnetic is a clean energy startup currently growing on Wefund, which means anyone can invest for a limited time. The startup has already raised over $500,000 from private investors.
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