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.
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?
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antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 3y
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.
Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 3y
But can it pave the way to better roads
gullible@kbin.social · 8 pts · 3y
Soon all of creation will be either fungi or crabs, and we will have only ourselves to blame.
Apetitenevermind@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 3y
Cant even read the article due to ads changing pages shape/position every few seconds .
antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 3y
Memmy app has reader view. Really nice for stupid sites like this. But, you didn’t miss much.
roguetrick@kbin.social · 6 pts · 3y
Yes, we all think your mushroom tower is fantastic Neloth, you N'wah.
JWBananas@startrek.website · 4 pts · 3y
The coffee ground option sounds more practical
Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
I agree
AttackBunny@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
Is this how we get “the last of us” times?
elouboub@kbin.social · 3 pts · 3y
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?