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@RanjitDas-we1zx3 жыл бұрын
I was thinking about you will upload your video today... And you just did this... 😊😊😊
@al-aurum24573 жыл бұрын
the concern is its biodegradability...you dont want to buy shoes or houses that degraded after few weeks...it definitely works great as a single use product/packaging..though, it has potentials
@LeeMuayThai3 жыл бұрын
Mycelium should be more widespread! We should have stopped the use of plastic completely and switched over to something like mycelium. It is so much better for the environment and for our own health, it seems nothing but logical to use biodegradable alternatives to polymers. The societal lag causing old habits to die hard will most likely be humanity's downfall. The lack of federal drive to take initiative on issues such as this is what is holding humanity back.
@jesanvelazquez77923 жыл бұрын
OMG, that is a cheap cost for knowledge!
@TheZoepers3 жыл бұрын
would you use the mushrooms aka mycelia
@disgustedluigi3 жыл бұрын
Even if it ONLY replaces plastics in packaging that’ll be an enormous win.
@Niggurath-n4h3 жыл бұрын
Sad thing is corporate oil companies all over the world doesn't agree. Because their oil by products after fuel production is processed into non-biodegradable plastics. Which won a Nobel peace prize for making plastics possible from oil by products.
@TeenyTinyDevil3 жыл бұрын
@@Niggurath-n4h hmm so if they dont make plastics with it they just dump it?
@Niggurath-n4h3 жыл бұрын
@@TeenyTinyDevil they can put it back where they dig it or at least process them into a more suitainable products. Remember making it into plastics is just a temporary solutions of delaying the inevitable. All outcomes so far lead to more trash and unsustainable to the environment. Sadly people seems to ignore this cycle.
@clayz13 жыл бұрын
Amazon boxes, the filler material, and clear bubble product packaging. That would cut plastic use in half easily.
@disgustedluigi3 жыл бұрын
@Park Justin yeah. Hence my comment.
@roccobierman49853 жыл бұрын
Is this another one of those miracle implements that is waved in our faces, EVERYONE says YES, and then we never see it again?
@BiscuitFever3 жыл бұрын
Put your money where your mouth is. Insulate your house with it, get rid of plastics.
@PatrickKQ4HBD3 жыл бұрын
Yes!
@davidtherwhanger67953 жыл бұрын
Well according to this there are already 4 companies doing it. So maybe it will keep going. And as I understand it you need oil to make plastic. And we are running out of oil. So this has the potential of filling at least part of the demand the end of oil will leave.
@charetjc3 жыл бұрын
@@BiscuitFever my house is insulated with fiberglass, paper, and wood...
@phillipanselmo85403 жыл бұрын
considering they're patented, it probably won't be popular for 15-25 years
@youraverageyharnamite5389 Жыл бұрын
I remember proposing this concept to a friend of mine, they replied “Yeah but I don’t really want to eat off of dead mushrooms roots.” As if decomposed plant juice refined into plastic is better,
@spacezeppeli7358 Жыл бұрын
does the dude even know how bread is made
@calimorales9880 Жыл бұрын
@@spacezeppeli7358 ahahahaha no
@error5202 Жыл бұрын
That poisons you with Microplastics
@RealLifeIronMan Жыл бұрын
Frustration with potential late adopters of a technology may be frustrating, but we must convince people with evidence not verbal jabs. It is unintelligent to disregard reason, but it is unwise to simply write those people off as fools.
@ritikguptark Жыл бұрын
One thing like to mention here is...does the person who made plastic marketed it by saying hey..this is best to use not clothes...the positioning idea is very bad here..even though people started Caring about environments but its not 100% of world, we cant postitiotthese product in market daying this is good alternative to platic and its made of dead fungus ....no absolutely no, coat cutting is the key, if we go to business and deal directly with them no need for customer to know what its made and how, they just get it from market if other alternative is not presented
@keyholes2 жыл бұрын
I would love to see some big companies adopt this as internal packaging for electronics like TVs and white goods. The polystyrene used for those is the definition of single use - moulded to one product, just to get it to the consumer safely. I would love to be able to put that on my compost heap when I recycle the box it came in.
@talibong95182 жыл бұрын
I think a better Idea would be making it a legal requirement that any goods like this for sale must be built to last, come with service manuals and be easily serviced and repaired, not be subject to any tax and even be subsidised to stop the manufacturing and sales of cheap low quality goods that have minimal warranties and break as soon as it expires. Using mycelium is just not currently feasable because the extra weight of mycelium compared to styrofoam would result in more fuel being used for transport, and the toxic fumes released into the environment from burning additional fuel is far worse than burying some styrofoam. When clean electric can be produced in excess and all vehicles run on electric then it will be worth it.
@blablabla77962 жыл бұрын
@@talibong9518 even if we make it built to last, technology is advancing at a pretty fast rate. TVs just a few years ago looked like clunky messes that displayed a magnitude lower of the pixels. Now they’re heading towards being smart. Imagine having a TV that’s still running the first version of android with hardware that doesn’t allow HDMI input. That’s what your TV is going to feel like in 10 years even if you can keep it in perfect condition. I think having something built to last will only work once we’ve plateaued with TV technology.
@slate6132 жыл бұрын
@@talibong9518 Corporations of the world will never make their products more durable/long lasting for one reason. PROFIT If we aren't replacing our phones every 18 months, or our cars every 3 to 5 years, their profits shrink and we all know it's a cardinal sin to interfere with the shareholders profits. . .Even if all they do is sit around in their mansions and make money doing nothing.
@cacogenicist Жыл бұрын
Amazon pushing for that would be huge. Their huge fulfillment centers generate truly obscene metric shit-loads of plastic garbage, daily.
@dianapennepacker68542 ай бұрын
Nah I want to live in a biological engineered organism. Plant a bunch of trees in a square. Grows the structure rapidly like how fast bamboo grows. Put some spores onto it. Builds some walls. Following the tree path. Have my computer made from human brain cells. Forget to feed my computer enough protein. All the biological engineered structures combine into a intelligent super organism and consumes me. Making me a slave it controls to spread its seeds.
@jbj77993 жыл бұрын
Looks like HermitCraft’s Mycelium Resistance had a plan all along.
@kev61443 жыл бұрын
turns out it was HEP who were destroying the environment after all
@gabestr20773 жыл бұрын
I was looking for a Minecraft comment lmao.
@inventiveowl3953 жыл бұрын
@@gabestr2077 press X : *same*
@eisenheimabramovich6173 жыл бұрын
Grian will be so proud to know it's working.
@ladymak46983 жыл бұрын
grian will win
@speedyboi3493 жыл бұрын
Imagine my motorcycle plastics being made out of mycelium The mushvroom 🍄
@HypercatZ3 жыл бұрын
BA DUM TSS!!
@lancetheking75243 жыл бұрын
Damnit
@Its_Pronounced_Heezee3 жыл бұрын
Out.
@speedyboi3493 жыл бұрын
@@Its_Pronounced_Heezee haha No(´^-^)
@xify43153 жыл бұрын
...
@IloveJellow Жыл бұрын
I also just saw somewhere that many mushrooms can in fact digest plastics and still be edible.. But maybe we could use both mixed in with the wood chips to help start breaking down the over flowing plastics that don't get recycled and use it with this plastic fungus method. We are not only helping break down unused plastic, but also making a new product with waste plastics.. MUSHROOMS WHERE THE ANSWER ALL Along!
@nekosaiyajin8529 Жыл бұрын
Bro from where I'm from mushrooms are always the answer. Fungi, such great fucking beings.
@sh-zm7xl Жыл бұрын
Paul Stamets uses fungus to clean up toxins and plastic.
@coryrabbit Жыл бұрын
There are also mushrooms that can not only break plastic down into organic matter, they can survive solely on plastic in anaerobic conditions, making them ideal to use in oxygen poor landfills.
@cgbreeki8493 жыл бұрын
I would love to one day look at "trash" on the beach, see a mycelium package on the water and know that it won't take long before it's not there anymore.
@The1stHomosapien3 жыл бұрын
would you buy something in mycelium packaging over one witth plastic? even if it costs twice the price?
@cgbreeki8493 жыл бұрын
@@The1stHomosapien It really depends... but hopefully in the future the prices will change.
@peterfunny56623 жыл бұрын
@@The1stHomosapien well, considering plastic packaging is really cheap, yes I would pay twice the amount.
@Fenris23 жыл бұрын
Yeah enjoy the fungus spores in your intestines
@enlargedquack3 жыл бұрын
@@Fenris2 On that note, enjoy the plastic too since you love eating containers so much
@vb0t4293 жыл бұрын
Lets hope finding a mushroom island isn't hard
@TheDullNull3 жыл бұрын
The land of the Mushroom Cows conveniently named "Mooshrooms"
@corynn.l51463 жыл бұрын
Did you know the largest living organism on earth is in fact a mushroom?
@michamicha14333 жыл бұрын
@@corynn.l5146 its.. it's a minecraft joke..
@notomnithegodking3 жыл бұрын
@@michamicha1433 he's just giving facts
@pepearown49683 жыл бұрын
Nylium and the stems of giant Nether fungi are technically mycelium, too.
@BronzeOrwin Жыл бұрын
everyone being forced to use the ecovative design design patents, if they want to persue the styrofoam technology, already seems like a massive issue if you want it to ever be competitive with plastic. the issue I'm noticing is that everyone wants to *feel good* about eco products, but not concern themselves with the issues of the industry's own creation
@Mordecrox Жыл бұрын
It has always been about the Feel-good, a few procedures that happen to be cost-effective and beneficial for both companies can also be construed as environmental care are retrofitted as such One example being companies getting your used network cables from demolition and renovations and giving you credits for new products, if you meet a certain threshold they can emit a "friend of nature" certificate so both of you can pat each other on the back even though this is a profitable transaction for both sides and looking good to the public eye is just the cherry on the top
@shannabolser9428 Жыл бұрын
Patents expire. True it takes years but it will happen then this stuff will be everywhere
@mattews91 Жыл бұрын
I love when ppl use bricks as an example of things that you can do with garbage. Its like if someone lost all his members and someone tell him: "well now you can be a door holder"
@neonWHALE0023 жыл бұрын
20 years from now, Pixar releases a movie about mushrooms having feelings
@santosdr23 жыл бұрын
evolution would indicate that all of life is aware. That is how it forms adaptations to environment and stimuli, so it likely has feelings perhaps not as complex as ours but things alive happen to live. odd concept, so being more intune with life is a good thing. This product is good but understanding that we take life in order to live ours will help us reduce that amount of life shed. Being connected with all things in life and not disconnected from our roles as Humans. We are care takers of this world. But we aren't caring for it real well. Or ourselves.
@SolutionsNotPrayers3 жыл бұрын
Super Mario World!!!
@YHWH-SHUA3 жыл бұрын
@@santosdr2 that’s not how evolution works lmao
@santosdr23 жыл бұрын
@@YHWH-SHUA Okay. Feel free to explain it.
@gabgarcia99353 жыл бұрын
I wouldn't be surprised if they did have feelings, they are animal like, and all that mycelial network might be like a brain.
@unvergebeneid3 жыл бұрын
So the forms for the mycelium to grow in, are they called mold molds? ..... or mould moulds in the UK?
@electronresonator88823 жыл бұрын
Mycelium is Fungus ...so fungs or mushs
@UndecidedMF3 жыл бұрын
😂
@richardgoldsmith72783 жыл бұрын
Moulds are a different genus altogether.
@ndawesome13 жыл бұрын
Mush molds
@unvergebeneid3 жыл бұрын
@@richardgoldsmith7278 molds aren't a genus at all as far as I can tell. There are molds in all sorts of fungal taxonomic groups.
@Kikuri_Dood Жыл бұрын
You can't say it's plant based if it is made out of mushroom, when then it's fungie based
@Ddvgh1 Жыл бұрын
I think it’s a good idea, but it’s a little too rare. Mushroom Islands are ultra rare, often with only one or two within even 10 thousand kilometers of spawn. On top of that, the yield is low from these, as the islands certainly aren’t big enough to provide the amount we’d need. I suppose you could go through the nether and use nylium, but there’s no telling if it’s even near the same quality.
@brukts3361 Жыл бұрын
goddammit, I had to google this to find out it was a minecraft reference. I am dumb
@fp_j_k Жыл бұрын
@@brukts3361 same my dude
@zulhilmi5787 Жыл бұрын
Dude have you even heard of a bone meal? You can make lots of that island with bone meal and to make things more interesting, you can have unlimited bone meal with a specific farm.
@TurquoiseInk3 жыл бұрын
I would happily live in a mycelium insulated home, wear mushroom leather and support businesses that used this packaging. Bring it on!
@speway2 жыл бұрын
Just note that if you ever decide you sit on a lawn, for an extended period of time, you will germinate.
@roberine72412 жыл бұрын
@@speway what is "germinate"?
@speway2 жыл бұрын
@@roberine7241 It's a verb and one of the initial phases in the development of a a seed into maturity. It occurs just prior to root development. The context that I was using it in was a joke and in reply to the comment prior made by TurquoiseInk. It was just a bad joke. Have a great day!!
@roberine72412 жыл бұрын
@@speway ah now I got it. thanks.
@speway2 жыл бұрын
@@roberine7241 (Thumbs Up)
@VanuOfMILF3 жыл бұрын
As with most new solutions, the real question is "is it competitive at scale?" Doesn't matter how good the product is, if potential customers can't access it due to supply shortfalls.
@inventiveowl3953 жыл бұрын
Did you watch the video? :D
@WopSalad3 жыл бұрын
@@inventiveowl395 Did it not seem odd to you he only said, "price competitive" instead of giving an actual price comparison? If it was really that small of a difference he would have given an actual price, instead of dancing around it. Until this product becomes cheaper than the current stuff it's going no where. You're only going to see mycelium packaging for high end products.
@Ben4A3 жыл бұрын
@@WopSalad Yeah it only costs about half a cent to make a bottle of plastic while it probably cost one to $5 to make this mycelium thing So it's not price competitive at all
@ismailnyeyusof35203 жыл бұрын
The slow manufacturing process likely means that the products are not cost competitive with ordinary plastic products, however, if the costs of plastic products are taken in total to include the environmental impact costs then mycelium products might actually be cheaper.
@WopSalad3 жыл бұрын
@@ismailnyeyusof3520 ah, yes. Because billionaire CEOs often put the environment before profit. Nothing against those CEOs, that's their choice and at the end of the day probably the choice I'd make in their situation.
@ahlamamr46592 жыл бұрын
That is amazing. I wanted to use mycelium in an environmental architecture competition in my school but I didn’t really understand it thank you for clarifying things in simple way.
@unkarsthug4429 Жыл бұрын
How do they ensure the complete removal of any spores? As someone on immunosuppressants, I've been specifically told to stay clear of fungus in particular if it could still be in a living state, or even if the fungus itself is dead, if there might be any spores still alive.
@calligraphy4244 Жыл бұрын
Maybe the heating process also kills off spores, although from the video, they’re transporting these blocks pretty openly, I wonder how much spores end up in an uncontrolled state. Do you think the dead fungi serve also serve as a new ground for spores to grow in?
@sutarn_gamer4159 Жыл бұрын
@@calligraphy4244 Valid question there
@cossackchad82962 ай бұрын
Unless you're in a spacesuit, you are inhaling over 10k fungus spores every minute, fungus is something that's impossible to evade
@jlruss97773 жыл бұрын
Anyone thats ever had to install or touch fiberglass insulation would probably say YES to this option.
@Steror3 жыл бұрын
Good point, it's really itchy
@artemis_smith3 жыл бұрын
Idk, I HATE fiberglass but that stuff can last virtually forever. Idk about dead fungus. Seems vulnerable to getting eaten by animals, bacteria, and living fungi.
@cofal793 жыл бұрын
Its solved by washing in hot water, after you are done, if you have bare skin while working with this stuff... This is common knowledge for people that have been working with glasfiber insulation more than ones... Anyway Rockwool is not glasfiber and not that problematic as example Glava that is glasfiber. Also very flame resistant. So there is already natural products for the glasfiber ones.
@Trevin_Taylor3 жыл бұрын
They fixed that. Modern insulation isn’t itchy anymore.
@TheConjurersTower3 жыл бұрын
Big fax.
@christopherp.33073 жыл бұрын
*falls over with new shoes "Are you ok?" "Yeah, I'm tripping on mushrooms!" Hahahaha..... please don't hurt me.
@gutspraygore3 жыл бұрын
😂
@obisvanainobis99503 жыл бұрын
*hurts you*
@Komican3 жыл бұрын
I need your location now
@chatteyj3 жыл бұрын
You did a joke, haha, congratulations.
@FrancisDoubleA3 жыл бұрын
next 10 years : a bulletproof vest made out from mushroom myceliums
@Kefuddle2 жыл бұрын
Having lived in Vietnam for some years, I have seen the plastic horrors of the South China Sea first hand. This is an amazing first step!
@iantaggart30645 ай бұрын
And there are several initiatives like Ocean Cleanup to undo the damage already been done.
@Pavel_M_Mihalik2 жыл бұрын
Sounds like we're one step away from loading a starship with shrooms and sending it along the mycelial network.
@ruffaldimarco3 жыл бұрын
Nobody asking the real question: can we eat the packaging?
@ReddoFreddo3 жыл бұрын
Yes
@joshp88203 жыл бұрын
You can eat styrofoam packaging too!
@danielllanitogalvan59543 жыл бұрын
You can eat anything if you try hard enough
@ReddoFreddo3 жыл бұрын
@@danielllanitogalvan5954 Yes
@badgerbm3 жыл бұрын
you can eat anything at least once
@Scott_C3 жыл бұрын
This really feels like an underground technology.
@Cosmiccoffeecup3 жыл бұрын
I see what you did there.
@briangarrow4483 жыл бұрын
Well played. Polite golf clapping ensues.
@4tunesfo3 жыл бұрын
Har, har!
@ObsidianLife3 жыл бұрын
***Jazz-clap***
@hudsonhaynie16323 жыл бұрын
soon the fruiting body will emerge
@skperform Жыл бұрын
I wonder what mice and other rodents would think of mycelium home insulation?
@biblequotesdaily6618 Жыл бұрын
these innovations are a great step forward, but i honestly dont think we're gonna put a single dent in the behemoth plastic industry unless we change our economic policies. plastic is just so profitable the downsides are incomparable.
@gabrielquinterohoyos91513 жыл бұрын
The fact that this technology was developed in 2006 and I'm just recently hearing about it it's kind of concerning.
@KelpWolf3 жыл бұрын
It's hard to start up. When demand is low, the economies of scale make it really expensive compared to plastic-based materials. Also, oil gets a lot of subsidies from federal gov'ts around the world--makes the marketplace unfair to any product competing with plastic.
@lancetheking75243 жыл бұрын
if lets say, China, India, the US, or just the entirety of Southeast Asia, had there governments fund people enough to make these sorta stuff... then we would be able to massively produce this to wonder glory
@jeffreyfoster4723 жыл бұрын
Big Plastic hates this one trick.
@cryptotic52573 жыл бұрын
Because whenever there is a new discovery it means nothing due to pre existing infrastructure. New tech means they have to update their multi-decade old processes and that worries insecure businessmen and women since they are worried about making max profits at every opportunity and their fragile go hangs on the thread of money made that day.
@tkangwei3 жыл бұрын
The journey from development to mass production takes time, especially an entirely novel technology with no similar equivalencies to serve as reference.
@AidanS993 жыл бұрын
I’ll never get behind metal and paper alternatives to plastic items due to their high production energy costs. Sometimes as much as 500 times the pollution into the atmosphere. But this is an actual win win product. Hope it gains traction.
@freddynovember58422 жыл бұрын
3 words Mycelium 3-D Printer!
@PlanetaJuegosPC2 жыл бұрын
But can you drink a liquid from a recipent made of mushrooms?
@MrDisgruntledGamer12 жыл бұрын
@@freddynovember5842 printer? mmm idk if that would work, it grows into a mold it cant be placed in a pattern. Plus molding technology is hundreds of times more cheaper than 3d printing
@phantamanta44532 жыл бұрын
i doubt that it will happen. Right now the only Mycelium-Based Technology is under an license, meaning, that other companies have to pay to use it. If they really wanted to help, they would've created a new license, where nobody can monopolize onto it, yet keep costs down. It all comes down to companies being greedy instead of helpful. I am aware that creating things will cost stuff, yes, but somebody has to bite into the sour apple, or else things like this will just not be feasible, and people will just stay with Plastics instead.
@phantamanta44532 жыл бұрын
Basically, to explain better, let's say, for example, 1Kg of Plastics is worth 50 cents in production, (Obviously not the actual costs, just examples), and Mycelium costs 20 cents in production. Sounds nice, doesn't it? Well, yes and no. You're paying 20 cents to produce it, then you have to pay the company who is monopolizing it, which can easily be a good 60-70 Cents for each Kilogram, meaning, in reality, you're paying 80-90 Cents for 1Kg of Mycelium, compared to 50 Cents for 1Kg of Plastics. obviously companies will stay with Plastics instead because Economy. Money first, World second.
@therealsaln02172 жыл бұрын
This all sounds amazing and I hope it is ultimately successful. I also hope there isn't a second wave of eating tide pods, which would take the form of kids eating their mycelium shoes.
@Goober_gobbler Жыл бұрын
I think its interesting how we discovered plastic before the mycelium plastic. Shows how little we payed attention to funguses scientifically, and to nature.
@Riolunator3 жыл бұрын
When you've been terraforming mountains using mycelium in Minecraft and want to justify it
@quandale_dingle63533 жыл бұрын
Bro i got to this vid looking up mycelium building tips for mc
@vlucas61343 жыл бұрын
let’s start a resistance
@Kuria_zhaints3 жыл бұрын
It's about the principle
@Morningstar_373 жыл бұрын
@@Kuria_zhaints And about sending Scar a message
@edsweet28583 жыл бұрын
@@Morningstar_37 correct
@Datdus923 жыл бұрын
"There's mold in the walls" house buyer: "Great!"
@TheDragonfriday3 жыл бұрын
The house is mold
@jerrywhidby.3 жыл бұрын
And now I know that mold is a fungi. Thanks.
@JohnSmith-ns6dp3 жыл бұрын
“Breaks down within 45 days underground…” Me who just used it to insulate my basement: 😳
@jerrywhidby.3 жыл бұрын
@@josephb3147 and Britannica says you're wrong. Mold is a mycelium. www.britannica.com/science/mold-fungus
@jerrywhidby.3 жыл бұрын
@@JohnSmith-ns6dp seriously what do they treat it with to prevent rot?
@blinco15392 жыл бұрын
I really dislike the amount of power Amazon has, but if they were to use this technology I really think we would see almost every other company follow suit which would reduce plastic waste by crazy amounts! Also acoustic insulation is something that’s often overlooked so thank you for looking into that! I feel like noise is a big issue in large cities, not only because of the amount of sounds happening, but because I imagine sounds bounce off of the buildings and concrete. By building stuff out of these materials we could reduce noise pollution too!
@julianweiser9985 Жыл бұрын
I loved their application of cardboard tape. Now i use it too. Its much easier to work with than standard plastic tape because it doesnt stick to itself as much.
@AIM-9X_Sidewinder2 жыл бұрын
imagine buying a cellphone case made out of this fungus, but wrapped in plastic
@patricknelson3 жыл бұрын
Speaking of foam, as a consumer, I *absolutely loathe* styrofoam with a passion (and that’s not even accounting for the environmental impacts). It makes such a massive mess and is impossible to break down. It can be super frustrating.
@stepcorngrumbleteats76832 жыл бұрын
Acetone breaks it down super quick, leaving a blu-ish fluid that can be molded and reused...the product also takes up a LOT less space...about 20 to 1 with the Acetone able to be reused with a small amount of new fluid added. I have had minor successes with flet panels cut and assembled with either Acetone or EDC (ethylene dichloride)
@ellaslade1402 жыл бұрын
superworms can turn it into organic matter.
@Lydaw2 жыл бұрын
@@stepcorngrumbleteats7683 Gasoline can also break it down. The resulting mixture is napalm.
@sentesues93832 жыл бұрын
@@Lydaw I thought you needed a starch in there as well for for thickness and stickyness
@Yuki_Ika72 жыл бұрын
I work at target and I too loathe Styrofoam, especially the cheap stuff, it crumbles and gets EVERYWHERE!
@clabatross30643 жыл бұрын
The problem with fungus is that there are so many known mycotoxins and likely even more unknown mycotoxins. For instance, the some Fusarium species are used in fake meat products, but I believe most species in the same genus are known to have harmful mycotoxins. Aflatoxins (produced by Aspergillosis species) are known to be toxic to liver cells and are heavily correlated with cancer and liver cirrhosis. The point is, different species and genus of fungi produce all kinds of different chemicals that we have no idea how they effect the body. I'm not saying fungi based plastics wouldn't be better than petroleum based plastics which probably have an effect on the endocrine system. The industrial uses for fungi seem pretty cool, but I would use caution when using fungi for packaging food or water. I am not an expert, but I took a few mycology classes in college. There is so much we don't know and so many undiscovered species. I think caution is warranted for packaging food. If someone knows more please comment.
@iris74842 жыл бұрын
thanks for this. It's so easy to watch a cool video and be like "YES ALL THE PROBLEMS ARE SOLVED!!!" but it's good to get a non-pessimistic reality check to remember that it's more complicated. That said, In the age of amazon, though, _just_ the application as a shipping material is exciting. I helped a friend unpack a wayfair couch last year and dear god...i felt like the hole in the ozone was opening directly over their house.
@Aatell764 Жыл бұрын
Wow this is incredible, if this ain't the solution I don't know what is.
@GameCyborgCh Жыл бұрын
hemp based plastic maybe
@xShadowDarkX2 жыл бұрын
I really love the idea of a mycelium based leather. I would really like to see just how effective it is. Even animal based leather eventually breaks down (as most organic structures tend to) but what is the breakdown period in comparison? Can we really on this leather the same ways we have in high fashion? This is especially important for shoes. Unlike pant or shirt shoes are MEANT to take a beating. It would be unfortunate if a mycelium based leather broke down too fast but would it defeat the biodegradable novelty for the extra longevity?
@wizdude3 жыл бұрын
Use of this for packaging would be such a huge win for everyone. Most items we receive come with so much unrecyclable material and in the “new world” we live in now, we will continue to order and have goods shipped to us in larger quantities and more frequently.
@pilky_boooi3 жыл бұрын
it is a terrbile loss for people who get rich from plastics
@Porabany3 жыл бұрын
The 3/4 of plastic waste, mostly in the ocean, is made by Asian countries. Even if we will stop using plastic completely, it will not change our situation due to growing countries that dont have the capital to recycle properly.
@BigHotSauceBoss693 жыл бұрын
@@Porabany Hey you're not allowed to say that. The narrative is that America does everything wrong
@_R_R_R3 жыл бұрын
@@pilky_boooi thats the problem, they are going to push for the use of plastic. They will spread false information about the mushroom stuff
@pilky_boooi3 жыл бұрын
@@_R_R_R yeah I know
@pb78572 жыл бұрын
When you mentioned housing, my first thought was my house would be growing mushrooms due to the wet environment I live in. I'm both glad to know that the material is already dead, and disappointed I wouldn't get a free crop of mushrooms :)
@David13ushey2 жыл бұрын
Growing your own mushrooms is ridiculously easy in certain locals. I've got a tray I harvest a half dozen from every day. Just replace the organic fertilizer every year and you can keep eating the same mushrooms (an no, it doesn't have to be manure. There are plant waste fertilizers out there.). Just has to be not to hot, not too dry, and not too wet. Best of all, you can grow them out of sunlight. It might just be me, but they also seem to grow best in quiet. Not sure if that's a factor or not. I have mine in a basement garden I maintain with hydroponics, but the mushroom tray was long before I put in the hydro system.
@Anjiwee122 жыл бұрын
@@David13ushey Daaaaamn it’s that easy? I would be your neighbor and I’ll make a bunch of spaghetti for you.
@David13ushey2 жыл бұрын
@@Anjiwee12 Soooo yes and no. Remember how it has to be not too hot, not too cold, not too wet, and not too dry? It takes a bit of effort to keep it in the sweet spot. I use four thermometers and four moisture sensors to keep the tray stable. But once you find it and the mat is established, it's pretty regular. Depends on what kind of mushrooms you grow too. There's some more exotic varieties you can grow on logs and the like with a more nutty flavor. I grow cremimis. I know some folks that try to grow shitake but they're a lot more fussy. There's tons of variety. It's just making a nice stable place for the mushroom of your choice. OH! One other warning. When you're making your bed, keep it very clean. An environment good for mushrooms is also good for other fungi, namely mold. You want to keep the bed itself clean and as moisture free as possible.
@planetearth80442 жыл бұрын
@@David13ushey When you were giving your last warning, I thought for a moment that you meant the bead you _sleep_ in, not the bed you _grow mushrooms in._ I was willing to accept that too, as I thought " Yeah that makes sense, if one disperses spores before you can prune it you don't want mushrooms growing on your bed" It was only after I reread it twice I understood
@joshoxborrow23142 жыл бұрын
Can I just grow the insulation right in my walls?
@scottmcmaster4927 Жыл бұрын
There is another alternative that uses recaptured CO2 from the air fed to water based algae that then produce a material that can be used to produce a plastic alternative with most of the same properties that can be used to produce the same sort of products and biodegrades within a few years. A great alternative for disposable items such as straws, shopping bags, disposable cutlery.
@Anxiou5Panda2 жыл бұрын
Mycelium packaging is indeed a good start. Let's worry about the other applications later.
@asifishan12212 жыл бұрын
What other applications?
@Anxiou5Panda2 жыл бұрын
@@asifishan1221 Matt mentioned in the video that there may be other potential applications for Mycelium. If my memory serves me right, it can be used as an alternative for hollow blocks or insulation but it is said that these products are way less ready for mass production. Hence why I said, let's focus with the packaging replacement first.
@asifishan12212 жыл бұрын
@@Anxiou5Panda ok but are there any negative sides to it?
@Anxiou5Panda2 жыл бұрын
@@asifishan1221 Maybe, if handled and applied wrongly. I believe everything has an advantage and a disadvantage. We'll have to wait.
@asifishan12212 жыл бұрын
@@Anxiou5Panda you are right
@user-ze7tl2dw4i3 жыл бұрын
"Mycelium fungus" is like saying root plant or skin animal.
@krabgaming85233 жыл бұрын
We do say root plant
@Sillyhands13 жыл бұрын
There are non fruiting nonmycelium fungi, so this is an important distinction and completely correct.
@ahorseofcourse72833 жыл бұрын
I AM A SKIN HUMAN
@DMSProduktions3 жыл бұрын
@@ahorseofcourse7283 4 skin?
@Pope_3 жыл бұрын
storing my food using human skin 😳
@kenyenmusic75483 жыл бұрын
As someone who was just researching the mushrooms that can eat a diet solely of plastic, thank you so much for this video.
@saif-gv6gl3 жыл бұрын
w8 so mushroom can eat plastics?
@kazikek26743 жыл бұрын
@@saif-gv6gl Fungal organisms have a lot of oddities and wide potential applications. Since there's a fungus in Chernobyl that 'eats' the radiation, a fungus able to utilize plastic for its bioprocesses does not surprise me at all.
@johnnynephrite61472 жыл бұрын
You're always so glee and smiling about the next great thing that never happens.
@chardelraconner732424 күн бұрын
that man in the twenties doesn't didn't zipper his studies ; it was key accessible
@epictoast67273 жыл бұрын
I'd pay a little extra if a company used this instead of normal packaging.
@rjc02343 жыл бұрын
you say a little extra, but the last time (about 8 years ago) I saw this technology, you were looking at 30x the amount. You are already paying about £10 for the packaging for your £300 TV, do you want to pay more for the packaging for your TV than for you TV? And also Polymer packaging for that TV can be produced and packed in hours, vs the week it takes to just grow the mycelium. Time is what kills this for most people. Some smaller companies (notice how almost everything packed was expensive wine) are OK with it, but the price for 3million TV packs, it might be cheaper for that company to invest in a waste return scheme where they collect the packaging after delivery.
@epictoast67273 жыл бұрын
@@rjc0234 bud, I said a little extra because I ment I'd be willing to spend a little extra and not alot extra. If it's alot extra I'd opt for a standard packed item given the option.
@epictoast67273 жыл бұрын
@@gypsy_haas5869 that would be the best of both worlds if ya ask me.
@allancoelho69053 жыл бұрын
Like, its cheaper than plastic right? So we would pay less i guess
@rjc02343 жыл бұрын
@@epictoast6727 But this isn't "a little extra" this is a lot extra. You want a sustainable future you are going to have to pay for it.
@Swordkirby99993 жыл бұрын
If that's the case, then Minecraft has a huge potential for new items
@pepearown49683 жыл бұрын
Especially since there’s three types of mycelium in the game.
@prav25683 жыл бұрын
@Random Things ok
@sporttube693 жыл бұрын
Plastic block 🥵
@pepearown49683 жыл бұрын
@Random Things If you use hyphae planks in a build, and make it large, then it’s technically a mushroom mansion.
@JustinRed6243 жыл бұрын
shroomite
@omegaRST2 жыл бұрын
Plastics is the ultimate "Be careful what you wish for". On paper it's the perfect material: cheap, easy to shape, can have different strengths and it lasts virtually forever, but it turns out that in reality this is a huge problem, plastic is too good, too durable.
@zenowyvern1672 жыл бұрын
This frankly upsets me that we did not turn to the humble and profound power of nature first, instead of the literal condensed death we found deep in the earth, where it was meant to be forgotten
@Respectable_Username3 жыл бұрын
"It's about the principle" - Mycelium Resistance
@wabash90003 жыл бұрын
I was wondering if anyone else watched this video because of hermitcraft season 7.
@junenightmare3 жыл бұрын
This made me giggle
@tnsquidd3 жыл бұрын
TO SEND SCAR A MESSAGE!
@beholder84673 жыл бұрын
I was waiting for this lol
@MrLogicAndReason3 жыл бұрын
Yes!
@suryaananth27443 жыл бұрын
Video: "Mycelium fungus can be used for computing circuits" me: having resident evil village memories
@daton36303 жыл бұрын
mmmmmmmmmmm fungi
@erich68603 жыл бұрын
LOL right.
@era79283 жыл бұрын
MOLDSSSS!
@nates91053 жыл бұрын
Oh shit, here we go again!
@nonesuchone3 жыл бұрын
Subnautica flashbacks too
@MorenoCamionero2 жыл бұрын
There is a book anticipating this!! Thank you for this video. In 2019 a French medium wrote about how is most likely gonna be life on earth in about a hundred years. One of the many things he explained is that buildings were gonna be made of a material that is made of fungus and some metals, with incredible properties like self repairing and reactive to the environment. Seemingly we won't need to wait a hundred years for that. I'm so excited!! (Other advantages will be the reciclability of buildings once not in use and that they are biocompatible and thus more respectful with our own health when being inside).
@MorenoCamionero2 жыл бұрын
Terr2 Sylvain Didelot
@rosekincade8528 Жыл бұрын
All of what was stated sounds great, I would welcome the opportunity with open arms.
@KirbandtheOatmeals3 жыл бұрын
Fast forward to 50 years and we're all gonna become druids.
@NatalieRath3 жыл бұрын
Druid of the Mycelium
@Lolski_9243 жыл бұрын
@@NatalieRath sounds badass honestly
@_charademon_3 жыл бұрын
Or tyrans)
@kudachi9993 жыл бұрын
It's-A me, Mario!
@loganwalker85373 жыл бұрын
treants or fungoids from stelaris
@ndawesome13 жыл бұрын
Every one of these videos gives me an "I want it now" reaction. The possibilities exposed by new research are endless, but take a long time to come to market and become widely accepted.
@Beakerbite3 жыл бұрын
The biggest issue is that all the plastic manufacturing machines are already built. Even if a new product came out that was ridiculously perfect in every way, but incompatible with current injection molding, we'd still see it take decades for the market to migrate. They aren't going to throw away working machines until they are no longer profitable to operate.
@nahuelcutrera3 жыл бұрын
@@Beakerbite that's where government should come in, enforce measures about leaving plastic behind and even give subsides to companies that need them for the change of infrastructure. But they won't do that because they don't give a damn and they are all corrupt from top to bottom.
@walterbaltzley45463 жыл бұрын
Product cycle times keep getting shorter and shorter as computer modeling and 3D-Printing bring down development times and costs. China just introduced a wafer-sized processor that is essentially an entire data-center on a single piece of silicon -- ONE TRILLION transistors on a single chip... That is the equivalent of 1,000 PC's on a disk the size of a large pizza... Stack ten thousand of those, and you have more processing power than exists on the entire planet. With that kind of computing power, you could model a thousand generations of product development before you build your first prototype. In just a few years, you can skip the awkward stumbling and develop an optimized product in the same time it takes to build a prototype today.
@Justwantahover3 жыл бұрын
@@Beakerbite The NSW govt in Australia wants to ban all disposable plastics and if all countries did that the plastics factories would be forced to abandon their machines or convert them somehow (when it comes to disposable plastic shit).
@RandyRandersonthefamous3 жыл бұрын
Government can fix it, if it stops trying to give "free" things out and buying tanks
@justinsander7654 Жыл бұрын
Hemp polymers for clear plastics the byproduct of which can be used for the base component to grow the Mycelium plastics.
@ZeginMakesMusicАй бұрын
I like the idea of mycelium consuming plastic, not becoming plastic. It is a disservice to the fungi. I couldn't think of anything more disrespectful than being turned into a piece of plastic to be used as a container. Mycelium literally gave humans consciousness. We owe them more than this.
@Terx373 жыл бұрын
This technology is so simple ! Imagine how the world would have looked like if someone discovered this before plastics Edit: I did not mean to say that this was superior to plastics in every way, just that if we knew of this sooner, we could have had a good alternative to plastics decades, maybe even centuries sooner, as the production of such a material would not require the advanced knowledge in chemistry as the production of plastic would. Im not saying its better than plastics, its not, as it is only aplicable in a few things, all I am saying is that if this was discovered, lets say by accident, in the 17th century, it could have started a completely new era.
@deadwingdomain3 жыл бұрын
All about that funding
@darkwingduck473 жыл бұрын
what about capacity though? it takes a week to complete the process...too slow...
@maythesciencebewithyou3 жыл бұрын
not that different. We'd still be using plastics, because this can't replace all plastics. This has it's place, like replacing styroform packaging, but many other things you wouldn't want to be made of this. Also, you can make plastic stuff much quicker, so companies would still have preferred using plastics.
@Auoric3 жыл бұрын
We proposed this to our research adviser but they rejected our proposal because it's "impossible". When this tech conquers the industry I'll be sure to be back at their office and slap them with newspapers covering this.
@syndrome53723 жыл бұрын
not great, since its far slower and more expensive to manufacture, and it rots. it's also not transparent, pretty much definitely considerably weaker than plastic, is'nt waterproof, probably has a funny smell to it since it is essentially dead rotting plant matter, it would make anything it is packaged with wet and slimy as its a mycillium, would be full of bugs since it's a weave rather than a solid object, and it pretty much just not fit for purpose at all. its the same as all of these "saving the planet" ideas. sounds nice...totally impractical and doesn't hold up to scrutiny.
@parabolicazero27752 жыл бұрын
Sounds absolutely promising. The beginning of a new era where the technology is biological.
@freddynovember58422 жыл бұрын
3 words Mycelium 3-D Printer!
@yousufal-rashidguro2702 жыл бұрын
@@freddynovember5842 GENIUS
@hikerieger63192 жыл бұрын
@@freddynovember5842 We need this
@nitroxylictv2 жыл бұрын
Sounds like a good idea to have everything be made out of biodegradable products. I cant wait for my TV and my sofa to disintegrate! I might as well start a bio-engineered product company, because I will make trillions of off planned obsolescence.
@freddynovember58422 жыл бұрын
@@nitroxylictv start a biodegradable propane and propane accessories store lol
@gaiavoice2 жыл бұрын
Great piece, thank you, the most comprehensive assessment of mycelium's game-changing potential I've seen yet!
@ricknunez34652 жыл бұрын
This will become a HUGE game changer!!
@EndingEchoes933 жыл бұрын
I like wearing my mycelium hat to parties because it makes me a fungi
@nazfx26483 жыл бұрын
why
@hauwley3 жыл бұрын
Why
@bruntigeneral90813 жыл бұрын
i see what you did there
@lucifermorningstar19023 жыл бұрын
Appreciate your dad joke over there
@Jackbarrany3 жыл бұрын
Take your like and get out!
@Misaka-gt5yj3 жыл бұрын
Fungivores be like: "It's free real estate"
@metalrain3003 жыл бұрын
Fungi have always been one of my favorite things. I love mushrooms. This makes me happy as it supports something I really like.
@metroboonk59613 жыл бұрын
@@metalrain300 it really isnt you know
@metroboonk59613 жыл бұрын
@@metalrain300 well it is but the only thing thats being helped is us not the mushrooms. Mushrooms can feel pain. Atleast theyll die for a good cause.
@metalrain3003 жыл бұрын
@@metroboonk5961 everything that is living feels pain. What you gotta learn is what evils are you willing to risk. Their death aren’t in vain and help us tremendously. This is the Way
@metroboonk59613 жыл бұрын
@@metalrain300 and not only us but countless other animals that are being affected by plastic
@jameswoodard4304 Жыл бұрын
Paper is already a renewable, recyclable, and biodegradable option and the lumber industry in much of the world is getting very good at farming wood from a given acreage rather than clearing natural forests. It is deforestation practices in places like the Amazon that still give the lumber industry a bad name. But comparing that to what American and other areas do in regards to harvesting wood is like comparing the farming of domesticated animals to poachers killing endangered wildlife in Africa. No, paper/cellulose can't do *everything* plastic can (I'm looking at you, paper straws), but it can do a lot more than it currently is to take over a large portion of plastic's market. Maybe a combination of cellulose, fungal products, and new degradable forms of plastics which are being researched will together be able to eventually replace our current plastic usage. Even glass is much better than plastic. Like most things, a combined approach will likely be a more realistic soltion than any one magic bullet. Also, what are the molds that the "foam" is being grown in made out of? Plastic? Will they be able to eventually grow mycelium in mycelium molds? If plastics are required to make this stuff, you are in danger of getting into the whole "electric car charged from a coal-burning power plant" kind of situation.
@mishtehfish Жыл бұрын
While I don't disagree, I will throw out the idea that molds can be made of anything as long as it releases from the mycelium. It doesn't have to be plastic specifically, regardless of what was shown in the video.
@OmarManasra6 ай бұрын
I’m an engineer dedicated his life industrial machinery & product’s materials. What you’re saying is totally untrue if we use this for packaging or storage it will degrade fast causing losses in shipping
@dancingoctopussmead2 жыл бұрын
Great presentation. I remember doing some research on these products back in college to test their susceptibility to termite damage. Interesting to see this industry becoming more mainstream.
@dancingoctopussmead2 жыл бұрын
@@CrispyApplJackz Termites would eat into them but overall held up pretty well. Especially when compared to the control which was pine wood. It did seem that if the environment was too wet they were quite susceptible to having mold grow that the wood did not have an issue with. this was a while ago so my memory on all the findings might not be perfect.
@acadianheatingandair32912 жыл бұрын
I was wondering how it holds up to termites so what's the answer please respond
@ericsagen52292 жыл бұрын
There's actually a fungi that is a death sentence for termites. They have been busy as of late turning this fungi's into pest control for other bugs that are useless and bothersome to humans. Mushrooms are the future!!!
@socalpotato2 жыл бұрын
Surely some plant-based component can be mixed in which deters insects? Like lavender’s usefulness against garden annoyances.
@dancingoctopussmead2 жыл бұрын
@@socalpotato Possibly but I was simply testing the base material so they had a control line to reference. I do not know if they continued with the research and I don't remember the companies name so I can't look it up either.
@fredbach60393 жыл бұрын
A young fellow tested polystyrene as a food for several organisms and found a worm that eats and digests polystyrene for food, and thrives on it. We should be pushing that technology too.
@blueturborider3 жыл бұрын
yeah, and the by-product of that was antifreeze which is also no recyclable and toxic
@walterbaltzley45463 жыл бұрын
@@blueturborider That word non-recyclable is a misnomer -- It is not PROFITABLY recyclable... Matter is made of energy, which can neither b created nor destroyed, only converted to another form... The energy required to break the chemical bonds and then combine them with something else to make it stable and non-toxic costs more than the final product is worth. Everything is recyclable, not everything can be recycled PROFITABLY.
@timothyduffy88183 жыл бұрын
@@blueturborider if it turns to antifreeze it is just molecules composed of Carbon and Hydrogen or Hydrogen and Oxygen, which then can be broken apart with energy.
@That-No-Moon3 жыл бұрын
Another good thing to get rid of plastics is a fungus called Pestalotiopsis microspora that also converts plastics.
@blueturborider3 жыл бұрын
My point is that you can't reduce anti freeze ( if you can I don't if can and after reading the comments under I wonder how energy efficient that is) other point is that I don't think you can reuse. I might be wrong
@peterbarrett5496 Жыл бұрын
Idk I'm a packaging engineer. I think it's a stretch. Molded pulp is already doing well (like egg cartons), but molds are also expensive and time consuming to design. But we will see definitely cool
@adewilliam90472 жыл бұрын
>"Mycelium can replace plastics in packaging!" >Only cover foam use, no mentions of the main perpetrator of plastic pollution, single use food and beverage containers
@genzedaph24173 жыл бұрын
Grian be like: SPREAD THE SPORE
@KaizuoSilva3 жыл бұрын
yes i was thinking this
@gerardprescilla34403 жыл бұрын
Grain
@JD_17763 жыл бұрын
ITS ABOUT THE PRINCIPLE
@Kilo-sz4ch3 жыл бұрын
@@gerardprescilla3440 dont be a grammer nazi, he isnt even talking about grain. Grian is a person
@colinouille27863 жыл бұрын
@@Kilo-sz4ch who is this grain character
@madeofmandrake17482 жыл бұрын
I could feel my faith in humanity restore as I watched this video. A smile grew across my face as I continued to watch. As a biochem student I could not be happier with this technology. I hope we see this tech become normal across the world.
@ookayokay2 жыл бұрын
Recently I saw many cool things on KZfaq. There are a lot of people doing interesting stuff. I think the mass of bullshit is just overshadowing us.
@userurirhhrududjd2 жыл бұрын
@@ookayokay that's true. Even tho there's so much shit out there, there are still people out there who are doing genuinely good things to help us.
@forreal_suckers2 жыл бұрын
@@userurirhhrududjd exactly! There has been recent studies over the years of scientists making cement with microorganisms. Like imagine you driving on a road of cement that secretly has billions, probably trillions of microorganisms that are feeding off of Co2 instead of spitting it out! Like dont even lie that sounds fuckin cool
@Joe.86712 жыл бұрын
Don't put faith in humans put faith in God everything man does fucks up everything
@TheGbelcher2 жыл бұрын
Don’t hold you breath. Notice we didn’t talk about scalability or cost at all.
@vbgaming62032 жыл бұрын
The mycelium sheets can be used alongside concrete building materials, allowing for the concrete to be the support and even the protective news of the building, And the mycelium would be able to provide thermal insulation better than concrete can
@lamegame22182 жыл бұрын
Honestly, packaging like this would give me that final push I needed to switch to shopping mostly online. I get exactly what I want, AND mulch for my lawn 😁
@DoctorX173 жыл бұрын
Considering it's biodegradable, I'd have some concerns using it as a permanent building material, but certainly it's perfect for replacing single use plastics. Although for building, it might be great for short term pavilions -- grow a small building in a week, and a few months later it's just dirt, and if it's in a forest, no need to even remove it!
@lampostsamurai25183 жыл бұрын
Wood is also biodegradable. Still make houses it of it
@DoctorX173 жыл бұрын
@@lampostsamurai2518 fair... Although wood doesn't turn to dirt in 45 days. Plus it's usually treated to increase strength and/or durability
@joedibble41993 жыл бұрын
I’d have concerns of rot and insect infestation if used as insulation. For that matter rodent infestation?
@CUbanageNT_243 жыл бұрын
@@DoctorX17 Its like you didnt even watch the video. He explains how it can be used for construction
@priceward21673 жыл бұрын
@@DoctorX17 maybe I missed it but I didn’t see the video say it turned into dirt in 45 days? The only issue with it as a building structure, is that it isn’t very strong compared to wood or concrete.
@TheBangooman3 жыл бұрын
I wish companies just replaced plastics for this as much as possible, without asking and without us having to do shit. Just like they replaced previous materials without asking. Down 100% with this. Mycelium all the way baby!
@-Devy-3 жыл бұрын
It's all about the $$.
@mave27893 жыл бұрын
@@-Devy- it always was, and it will always be. Until the humanity ends itself
@BenjamintYT3 жыл бұрын
@@mave2789 Exactly. Humanity is so focused on money that they don't stop to look at how they earn it. We destroy our planet, pollute our atmosphere, all for a piece of paper that is only worth something beacuse a group of people decided so.
@mave27893 жыл бұрын
@@BenjamintYT Endless greed, in a limited world
@chiefsam343 жыл бұрын
Not to mention what we are doing to ourselves and other people during those processes
@omnichrome97842 жыл бұрын
Portobello mushroom caps have been used as a “hamburger patty” replacement for a while now. I don’t find mycelium “gross” for food products.
@isaks32432 жыл бұрын
swede here. svamp framtida means mushroom the future. actually fun that you translated some words into swedish and made it into an ikea poster
@PluralPaul3 жыл бұрын
I'm all in for this stuff. Clothing/wearables-wise, mycelium might help cut-down on waste in the clothing industry through constant manufacture of shoes, and the like. My hope is that shoe companies will stop endlessly pumping out new shoes that might never be worn, and realize they can still have a decent flow of income by selling replacement soles and other components that often drive people to buy new shoes, effectively making shoe repairs more affordable yet profitable. We already have algae foam, so it's about time mycelium steps into the spotlight.
@freddybell83283 жыл бұрын
Shoes respond to trends and trends change. People don't want to repair their ten year old pair of shoes that are no longer stylish.
@thejinn993 жыл бұрын
@@freddybell8328 This isn't true for all customers though, right? I know personally, after I've found a shoe/boot that I like, I'll go back and buy that same model again and again. I guess it helps that those styles are seen as classics. I mean, its either that or I don't really care too much about looking very stylish.
@maythesciencebewithyou3 жыл бұрын
It's the people who go and buy the latest fashion even if their old stuff is still fine. Try telling people they shouldn't buy so many shoes, especially to women who really like shoes, they really won't like it. These mycelium shoes won't last very long either.
@whichDude3 жыл бұрын
@@freddybell8328 Maybe people would replace normal shoes, but being able to cheaply repair actual working shoes would be great. Most people don't wear steel toe shoes or kitchen shoes for style. They wear them because they serve a purpose often job related. Some jobs wear out shoes rather fast.
@sachabinky29153 жыл бұрын
Soles don't wear out like the bodies do, joggers usually rip
@SonOfKukusan3 жыл бұрын
me, a hermitcraft audience, would expect something like mycelium vs grass
@arventus3 жыл бұрын
well we ALSO have seagrass as alternative to plastic,and its edible
@danielegerton98903 жыл бұрын
Order from IG @Mycohenry33 and thank me later
@nedeleavitt2 жыл бұрын
I will happily live in a mycelium home, wearing mycellium clothes, eating fungus out of mycelium containers.
@orusandornots19152 жыл бұрын
You glide over the cons while extolling it's virtues. I like these types of videos better when the information is balanced.
@maximusDAbiker3 жыл бұрын
I love the fact you include economic factors in your videos. It provides a realistic hope as things become cheaper, more cost effective etc. Most modern products we commonly use every day have become thousands of percent (percents?) cheaper overtime. Most things you cover are more expensive and more complicated, but within the next 20-50 years, I can see a lot of the products/concepts you cover becoming mainstream because of their cost effectiveness.
@notgonnapay3 жыл бұрын
We have people making mycelium foam, yet Amazon can’t help but send me a different package for every item I order.
@VaxtorT3 жыл бұрын
Stop ordering from Amazon. They commit to sending a percentage of their profits to questionable charities.
@OreganoParsley3 жыл бұрын
@@VaxtorT so?
@VaxtorT3 жыл бұрын
@@OreganoParsley I do not expect everyone to give a damn; but many folk who are concerned about the future of the family unit and our Nation do give a damn. Families are the building blocks of a strong, productive, resourceful Nation. Destroy the family....destroy the nation. Amazon donates millions to charities that work to undermine and destroy the American family
@bitraboj7223 жыл бұрын
@@VaxtorT you need to be in the right place with the right audience and in the right time to be able to convince anyone, and the KZfaq comment section isn't the place for that, not saying that what you're saying doesn't matter but that this isn't the greatest place for that, it just looks out of place.
@VaxtorT3 жыл бұрын
@@bitraboj722 I cannot help it. It is so disturbing to see so many who are so thoroughly indoctrinated by the the mainstream narrative. Perhaps commenting on you tube is not the best place.....but it is presently the only forum I have since being paralyzed a few years ago.
@EthanTheGamer772 жыл бұрын
Imagine being allergic to mushrooms and fungus and this was actually the future Oof
@fred6319 Жыл бұрын
tip don't eat the packaging or that jacket
@EthanTheGamer77 Жыл бұрын
@@fred6319 well stuff like dust and pollen can make you allergic and you don't eat it Plus mushrooms have spores which are similar to dust and pollen by being small and spreading everywhere
@fred6319 Жыл бұрын
@@EthanTheGamer77 they are no longer mushrooms and are DEAD
@stalkerwithapinkhat2788 Жыл бұрын
@@EthanTheGamer77 It’s not going to be alive
@icecreambone2 жыл бұрын
the main question i have with this is whether it still requires a lot of water to grow. iirc plastic takes something like 20 gallons of water per pound of plastic, so that's the benchmark to beat on that specific metric
@MikeDaner26303 жыл бұрын
So, if anyone knows the game Dwarf Fortress: this is basically elf crafting
@simonwesterlund21513 жыл бұрын
This sounds like some dnd underdark technology 🤣
@KainYusanagi3 жыл бұрын
More like Deep Dwarf crafting. Remember that elves hate you harvesting cave mushrooms for "wood", too. unless you just mean the "here's a mold to have it grow to shape" bit.
@ghanphol3 жыл бұрын
Which means we need to burn whoever came up with it I refuse to use anything those filthy tree hugging cannibals do
@bow-tiedengineer44533 жыл бұрын
@@KainYusanagi I think he meant the grow to shape bit.
@TheDragonLord123413 жыл бұрын
Dude that game is fucking nuts...
@majesticctrees3 жыл бұрын
There’s a place close to my hometown called Mushroom Mountain. They’ve been researching and creating construction materials with mycelium like cinder blocks and insulation. My biology class took a field trip there and it was probably the coolest thing I’ve seen.
@TheNinja94a3 жыл бұрын
Idk how you can answer my curiosity as to where it is without doxxing yourself/family but it'd be pretty cool if ya could. Edit: didn't realize that you named it in the title, found it.
@frequentlycynical642 Жыл бұрын
Fun fact: We are closer to fungi evolutionarily than plants. We digest our food inside us. They digest externally.
@TimothyMorigeau2 жыл бұрын
Amazing! Nature seems to always give us what we need.
@NoobixCube3 жыл бұрын
I’d like to see mycelium coffee cups. People have moved from polystyrene ones to paper cups, but the lamination and treatment required to make paper cups that don’t immediately collapse and drench your hands in boiling hot coffee make them as much an environmental disaster as polystyrene. Perhaps more, because in many places you can’t actually recycle paper cups as you would other paper and cardboard, so they end up contaminating recyclable waste, while polystyrene cups always ends up in discarded waste, never contaminating recycling loads.
@NicolasMendoula3 жыл бұрын
Ohhh yes or mycelium straws
@NoobixCube3 жыл бұрын
@@ChaosSwissroIl personally I keep a travel mug in my backpack. I don't always have my backpack, and would like a more sustainable solution when I want a cup of tea and can't spare the time to stop and have it in a normal mug. All I know for sure is paper cups are not that solution. Polystyrene has its problems, and is definitely worse, but it shouldn't be this close a call. I'll take a mycelium cup any day over both.
@NoobixCube3 жыл бұрын
@@ChaosSwissroIl I guess it's fine, if you don't count the emissions in producing it, or the complete lack of biodegradability, or the source of the petrochemical it's made of.
@chickenfootlicker3 жыл бұрын
Imagine edible cup
@DatBisa3 жыл бұрын
@@ChaosSwissroIl The problem with plastics isn't the sustainability of production, but the sustainability of disposal. We either burn that shit, releasing all kinds of nasty shit into the atmosphere, or just leave it lying around where it could take 100s of years to slowly degrade. Mycelium on the other hand would either burn up almost entirely into CO², adding only as much back into the atmosphere as was used in the production of the material itself (growing the biowaste and mycelium for the material), or just going straight back to the earth in less than a month. You completely missed the point on production as well, if existing mycelium replacements already vastly outperform their polymer counterparts as noted in the video, then there's no reason to keep going with plastics on that front too.
@distantmind9563 жыл бұрын
I don't want more fungus in my shoes! In all seriousness though, I'm so freaking hyped for this becoming mainstream!
@cdub50332 жыл бұрын
We sampled a taste of a mycellium "Beef Pie" as part of a Lecture. Tasted pretty good, texture seemed to have the right "mouth feel" & of course no fat or connective tissue for those who are bothered. Basically, no-one would ever know it wasn't Beef unless they were told.
@ForestFairy2 жыл бұрын
This is one of the reasons why if I don't get into nueroscience I'm going to study Mycology. It's ao fascinating what you can achieve with mushrooms!
@schnoz2372 Жыл бұрын
Probably just about anything!
@schnoz2372 Жыл бұрын
Womder if we will ever see mycological robotics and nanorobotics and stuff
@kaspergruszczynski99193 жыл бұрын
I'd be more than happy to use mycelium insulation, seems like a cool application, though we'd have to see if due to the heat and moisture it may degrade in the walls. I remember reading or watching something about mycelium bricks where they are made dormant but can be reactivated to bind the individual bricks together into one structure and then made dormant again. Seems like a great application. Or imagine growing the mycelium in the wall cavity on site and then neutralizing it. Perfectly sealed cavity with the insulation bonded to the studs. May even act as an air barrier.
@dazley80213 жыл бұрын
The Last of Us fans: "Oh no no no no" otherwise promising technology!
@GianniStorti3 жыл бұрын
Damn, better off start practicing now with the bow!
@brzygork3 жыл бұрын
What fans?
@damon58943 жыл бұрын
@@brzygork me (-_-)/
@tonytwinkletoes31493 жыл бұрын
@@brzygork i forgot it even existed for the simple fact it's a PS exclusive and let's be honest... It's not that great.. so these are valid facts
@DeathProductions2003 жыл бұрын
@@tonytwinkletoes3149 when the game came out initially it was id say a solid 8/10 for zombie games. Had a better orgin for zombies at least, instead of a virus, something that actually can potentially happen in real life.
@tygerinthenight32552 жыл бұрын
I watched a show on Curiosity Stream that talked about this mycelium technology and it was really interesting, but I don't remember it presenting it as an alternative to plastic packaging so this is really cool. It spoke mostly about its uses as a new building material and I think it mentioned the possibility of treatments that would make a brick of fungus comparable to a brick of concrete in terms of weight baring. I really need to watch that show again. Edit: For anyone curious, I just looked up what show that was. Its called Evolve and the episode that discusses mycelium technology was one of the middle episode. I wanna say ep 3 but it could've been 4.