Wednesday, March 2, 2011

What Are Other People Doing With This Stuff? (Part 1)

Eben Bayer: Are mushrooms the new plastic? | Video on TED.com

MIND = BLOWN

It seems like a slow process, and we're not really a world of slow manufacturing, but there's a lot of room to grow. How interesting that we have boxes and boxes of agriculture byproducts coming our way.

Given the chopped-up bits and pieces nature of the materials we will be working with, I'm sure some form of pressed composite material will take shape at some point. However, the approach of adding a bunch of glue and making it into different shapes feels...boring. But this makes that approach more interesting.

Question: Can you also grow mushrooms at the same time, and not just the root structures? In other words, could you make the composite and food at the same time?


Also, there's more info at ecovativedesign.com

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