Posted on 03/01/2023 6:33:13 AM PST by Red Badger
There's no denying it, mushrooms are pretty great to eat.
But here's something you might not have known: Some mushrooms are also great for hammering on the outside of transatlantic 787 Dreamliners!
The Verge @verge · Follow Meet the mushroom that could one day replace plastic https://trib.al/GpROnAJ
Here's one more reason to love a good mushroom: one day, you might be able to make headphones, memory foam for shoes, or even aircraft exoskeletons with it. Researchers just assessed the engineering possibilities with one particularly impressive mushroom and found that it might be able to replace plastic in a whole bunch of different use cases.
Anything that might make an airplane wing stronger, I'm for it. That kind of infrastructure is nothing to play around with.
For real, though, the applications of this fungus seem incredible, almost limitless:
The fungus Fomes fomentarius is the focus of new research published today in the journal Science Advances. It has the remarkable ability to yield a wide range of materials with different properties — from soft and spongelike to tough and woody. By studying the architecture of the mushroom, researchers hope to pave the way for it to become a more sustainable building block of our lives. ...
What's unique about this fungus is that it has three layers with distinct properties that could each be useful in different ways. There's a very tough outer crust that could be used to make impact-resistant coating for windshields, for example. Then, according to Mohammadi, there's a soft middle layer that feels good on the skin and could replicate leather. The third inner layer is similar to wood. The research team used advanced imaging techniques and mechanical strength tests to study each layer and assess their potential uses.
Glass, leather, wood, plastics — pretty much most of the stuff we use in daily life.
Here's a neat video exploring some of the possibilities behind this (literally) growing technology:
VIDEO AT LINK........
I love the cutting edge of scientific exploration at play here: Hitting a mushroom brick with a propane torch to see if it will insulate the heat from a chocolate bar on the other side:
Exciting stuff.
Let me get my baggie of magic mushrooms and visualize all these great things.
Amazing stuff!
Here's one more reason to love a good mushroom: one day, you might be able to make headphones, memory foam for shoes, or even aircraft exoskeletons with it. Researchers just assessed the engineering possibilities with one particularly impressive mushroom...
Yankee Ingenuity all the way.
After all, this funGI is famous for always getting there first:
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Matthew 13:33 Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
Because you know how this stuff just mushrooms.
might be able to
Spit.
Lol
researchers hope
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Hope is hope , not a “ can”
Shite, they’re melting.
I hope this isn’t the materials equivalent to the “we can all just eat bugs instead of meat” green propaganda.
They want to destroy millions of acres of land to replace crude oil products.
Given the rush to diversity hiring of aircrews as well as aerospace engineering and the rush to place incompletely tested aircraft into service, it appears that it’s becoming safer to take a trip on mushrooms rather than an airframe constructed from them.
If your plane crashes in the middle of the Gobi Desert you can always eat it!..................................
Yes, some fungi have interesting properties, along with hundreds of other species.
This is an article I place in the "interesting, but three big steps from any commercialization, will probably never happen, bin".
The good thing about this is you can eat your mistakes..................
Spore Drive?
Reminds me of the Sci-Fi novel “Omnivore” by Piers Anthony. Wild stuff.
I thought mushrooms had zero nutritional value so use them for making things instead
I was at our office the other day and our technical director told me that he had recently spoken with a Professor who is at the forefront of researching a new technology that our company is interested in.
we asked for a few grams of it and were told that he hasn’t been able to make half that over the last 20 years.
A lot of this stuff is just theoretical and just published to keep the grant money aflowin.
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