Agricoltura, Eben Bayer: Are mushrooms the new plastic?
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http://www.ted.com Product designer Eben Bayer reveals his recipe for a new, fungus-based packaging material that protects fragile stuff like furniture, plasma screens -- and the environment.
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Once people get a hold of this technique, capitalism will just continue to grow. Yes, this is a great discovery, it will not go beyond capitalism or unchecked globalization.
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Will it destroy the ecological balance by using many of this Mushroom? I means fungus.
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a small thing but big step to save earth
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mushrooms and fungus have all the properties needed to replace plastic in all of the careless ways we have inserted plastics and other poisonous, non-biodegradable, (engineered in a period of ignorance, and mostly unintentional irresponsibility. we had problems of storage, carriage, and resources, to which synthetic and nearly indestructible synthetics seemed to be the answer.) THis due is important, pro-active, and from what I can see, Completely on point in focus and feasibility. His head and heart are in exactly the right place. Please support.
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Two questions remain. 1. How do you stop the growing of the mold during storage. 2. The material will end-up on the garbage dump, do you have prove in which time-frame this material is degraded.
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Very interesting material, yet, to manufacture parts in a large scale, it needs a lot of those moulds that are made of ... Plastic... Would still need to have an easy recyclable plastic for those to get a real sustainable business model.
I think this material is indeed the replacement for Styrofoam, but not for anything else.
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23 people work for the oil companies...
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This is amazing ! wow
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And what do you do with all of the plastic mold containers that you use to make your bio-parts?
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That's great... how come some people click on the dislike button? I'll never understand... Do they prefer plastic or what?
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woooooow
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I find it kind of ironic that he grows a replacement for plastic in plastic molds :)
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Yeah and ? How does it matter ?
Mycelium could be used to replace styrofoam and it would be a great advancement, the fact that these corner pieces are in plastic means we haven't found an alternative... yet. And the kind of plastic used for these things are probably recyclable, it's the same kind that you use for your plastic bottles... It's not the same as styrofoam :)
Mycelium would be much better than styrofoam...
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What happens when they break though? Isn't the facility using a large number of plastic containers? Is there any other material than can be used for the molding? Also,
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That can be a good thing if you want things to last.
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one day we won't need oil and we can stop funding terrorism.
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excellent idea!
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There is such a thing as a "green burial" nowadays, although Muslims have been doing it for over a thousand years. I guess they are a bit ahead of the times.
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Oh this is fantastic! Great invention.
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Pretty cool, when can I order my Mushroom coffee cup? lol
http://www.ted.com Product designer Eben Bayer reveals his recipe for a new, fungus-based packaging material that protects fragile stuff like furniture, plasma screens -- and the environment. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate. Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10
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I think this material is indeed the replacement for Styrofoam, but not for anything else.