Better link from the article:
https://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articles/latest/2023/07/bioknit/
It’s NOT concrete. It’s mycelium blocks. Nowhere near the compressive strength of concrete. More of a Cobb-building insulation material than concrete replacement. Kind of stupid these headlines and lazy reporting.
But can it pave the way to better roads
Soon all of creation will be either fungi or crabs, and we will have only ourselves to blame.
Yes, we all think your mushroom tower is fantastic Neloth, you N’wah.
Cant even read the article due to ads changing pages shape/position every few seconds .
Memmy app has reader view. Really nice for stupid sites like this. But, you didn’t miss much.
The coffee ground option sounds more practical
I agree
Will we be growing out houses someday? Make a scaffold for the stuff to grow in with all the pipework, cabling, and so on and so forth, then wait a few months?
Is this how we get “the last of us” times?
