this post was submitted on 26 Aug 2023
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

But can it pave the way to better roads

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Soon all of creation will be either fungi or crabs, and we will have only ourselves to blame.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, we all think your mushroom tower is fantastic Neloth, you N'wah.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cant even read the article due to ads changing pages shape/position every few seconds .

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Memmy app has reader view. Really nice for stupid sites like this. But, you didn’t miss much.

[–] AttackBunny 4 points 1 year ago

Is this how we get “the last of us” times?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The coffee ground option sounds more practical

[–] Mojojojo1993 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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?