Paul Stamets - Bioremediation with Fungi

[JJStuffEngineering]

Mushrooms rule the fucking world

[jdavz322]

This man is brilliant! Why, oh WHY?! do people refuse to believe this sort of thing over the corporate bottom lines? Honestly! It boggles the buggering mind! Nature/G-d has made these wonderful mechanisms which operate within the framework of our reality, and we STILL rely on corporate executives and legislators to make these sorts of decisions for us. We're part of the bleedin Planet, we are! And we have a G-d given right to harmonize with our own planet! DO IT already!

[networkedfreedom]

With out corporate personhood and liability caps, a catastrophe like the BP oil spill would likely never have occurred, and in such an instance BP would be rapidly liquidated. With out bankruptcy privilege, they couldn't defer externalities to tax-payers. If domestic hemp production were legal, petroleum- fuel might have lost its dominance and efficacious bio-fuels would gradually replace it.

[networkedfreedom]

One can only speculate the motives of the federal government in choosing not to use this effective bio-remediation strategy. Perhaps such is in the interests of the cancer establishment, or is just total incompetency. Whatever the motives, government and its' pet corporations are destroying the earth.

[parsleysprigs]

Now if only our government would get they're head out of they're ass and apply this to the oil spill in the gulf.

[jjhitman]

This is real food for thought! =) Thanks Paul!

[nnwo2012]

Full 1 hour documentary that chronicles the BP Oil Spill- the prior knowledge, the sales of stock by BP and Goldman Sachs, the media blackout, the poisonous toxic chemicals used by BP to "clean" the spill, the lethal methane levels, the people getting sick, the possible mass evacuations, the oil rain, bioremediation---Spread the word!

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[mlcoo17]

This is wonderful, if it's true. It kind of has that too good to be true ring to it doesn't it. I would buy stock in this company if they were public and if I knew who they were.

[longtreebeard]

@mlcoo17 fungi perfecti go to fungi.com it is paul stamets web site

[crock703]

IF anyone has seen the "hay cleaning up oil" video.. this would work perfectly with it.

When you order an Oyster Mushroom kit from Stamets' company, the mushrooms actually grow out of a bag of common hay. It is the medium they prefer.

[jdavz1803]

Maybe they'll use something like this for the BP disaster. Doubtful. Guys like this are almost always underappreciated. Good thing people seem to be waking up to the idea that their corporate governments pretty much all blow.

[srdthatsme]

Paul Stamets is brilliant!

[longtreebeard]

@srdthatsme i agree,i met him at his seminars in shelton wa.he is very intense did you know he is also a black belt

[SacredVine]

Thank you for sharing this video, Paul Stamets is definitely a fungal visionary!

[tonyrosam]

i hope people pick up his work

[navaneethmohan]

what magnification is the first pic?

[msrhe]

hero. :)

[kjen13]

unbelievable. top stuff

[nickmasta]

does anyone know if this fungi was genetically engineered or just found in nature this way?

[herseyb]

regular old found in nature

[tillo2008]

@nickmasta

"does anyone know if this fungi was genetically engineered or just found in nature this way?"

this is part of a broader and better presented talk that Paul Stamets gives on the TEDtalksDirector channel.

He explains that they are primarily found in the Old Growth Forest (hope i got the right) in the USA and are not GMO.

Video Title: "Paul Stamets: 6 ways mushrooms can save the world"

[longtreebeard]

@tillo2008 no genetically engineered mushrooms.he used oyster mushrooms and they adapted to disassemble the oil,mushrooms are in fact natures grand molecular disassemblers they decompose all organic matter.paul grows all his fungi at his lab in washington state check out his web site at fungi.com

[1eleKtriK2MAYHEM]

Pual Stamets is a Mycological Genius

[ntuman]

NIceeee.

[smudge6699]

A truly earth shattering and literally ground breaking discovery.

Fungal reclamation.

Give him the Nobel prize NOW!

We can now reverse the process of our own destruction.

Peace

[MannoMagic]

peace

[trinitymike]

Kelly is right: you're all over-educated geeks....Yeah, you heard me GEEKS!!!!

j/k-ing...Kelly needs to read those studies.

[BlueManIan]

Awesome! My biology professor showed us this in class as an intro to her lecture on fungi and plants.

[YouAdamNazzkl0wn]

Kelly is an ignorant simpleton.

Stamets is the real deal in a world full of fake bullshit.

[YouAdamNazzkl0wn]

Kelly - you have repeatedly proven yourself to be a fucktard.

Go back to watching wheel of fortune and shut the hell up- the big folks are talking now.

(TV Guide subscriber no doubt)

[fungalfever]

As a big fan of Paul Stamets, I think the point to get across is that this is useful for contaminated soil etc. If you are able to capture a diesel spill prior to it getting into the soil or environment...wouldn't you do that? It doesn't appear that this is intended for growing mushrooms in straight diesel.

[Innomen]

All hail the bottom of the food chain.

[kellynelson]

The problem is that if you cause a toxic substance to come in contact with living organisms it will cause the death of the living organisms. There has to be some process to reduce the toxicity or the mushrooms would be unable to survive. This makes this presentation suspect

[Kittrisa]

Your statement about toxic substance killing living organisms is true. However, what the video explains is that to different types of mushrooms diesel fuel is not toxic but a form of food. They feed on the the fuel and converted the toxins to substances that other life forms can not only tolerate but feed off of, and grow.

[misterpickles530]

OWNED KELLY

[kellynelson]

Mushrooms can not use diesel for food until it has had its toxicity reduced. If you do not think so plant some mushrooms then pour diesel fuel on the soil around it and watch.

[Kittrisa]

The experiment you propose has already been done and documented. Put the following in google and read the articles.

"Mycoremediation Fungi to the rescue"

According to Paul Stamets in an article for Whole Earth (Fall 1999), earlier studies had shown that this strain of mushroom broke down heavy oil, "removing over 97% of the ...polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and more than 80% of the alkanes."

[kellynelson]

Just do the experiment it will show you the real results. The only way the mushrooms could possibly live is if the toxicity is minimal. You do not seem to understand that the reason you clean up spills is to reduce the toxicity to the environment which means to make the environment capable of sustaining life. Mushrooms have no chance of living in direct contact with fresh diesel. It is easily proven.

[beansnrice321]

It is easily proven that you are wrong you mean.

[kellynelson]

I can give you an address to send some mushrooms and I will plant them and then pour diesel around them and film the results if that is sufficient. Do you really want to put common sense to test. i noticed you did not state that you are going to prove it or not!

[waori]

Diesel is an organic fuel which has dissolved water for germination, carbon for food and oxygen and sulfur for respiration. Just because diesel is toxic to some organisms does not mean it's toxic to all of them. Cladosporium resinae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa are both well known for living in fuel and there are plenty of other organisms which can also live in fuel. You don't have to reduce the toxicity because the chemicals we find toxic are the ones which some fungi and bacteria species eat.

[waori]

If you want to see the results of your proposed experiment look them up because they have been done.

Gunderson, J. J., Knight, J. D. & Van Rees, K. C. J. 2007. Impact of ectomycorrhizal colonization of hybrid poplar on the remediation of diesel-contaminated soil. Journal of Environmental Quality 36:927-934.

Ivanova, Galina. 2006. Physiological studies on hydrogen-evolving and diesel-degrading microorganisms. Acta Biologica Szegediensis. 50: 151

[waori]

Jacques, Rodrigo J. S. Okeke, Benedict C. Bento, Fatima M. Peralba, Maria C. R. Camargo, Flavio A. O. 2007. Characterization of a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon - Degrading microbial consortium from a petrochemical sludge landfarming site. Bioremediation Journal. 11:1-11.

[waori]

Miranda, R. de Souza, C.S. Gomes, E.B. Lovaglio, R.B. Lopes, C.E. Vieira de Queiroz Sousa, M.F. 2007. Biodegradation of diesel oil by yeasts isolated from the vicinity of suape port in the state of Pernambuco --Brazil. Brazilian Archives of Biology & Technology. 50:147-152.

and there are hundreds more of these studies. If you still think your common sense trumps empirical, verifiable, peer reviewed experiments then I give up.

[iluvupisces]

the mushroom is only a small part of the organism. it is the mycillium that is the true the living oranism and this feeds and cleanse the toxins. The mushrooms are like flowers to M. and will always be cyclical. You obviously missed the entire point.

[jakefgreenfield]

thats exactly the point of this, to reverse the damage done to soil by the fuel..

[abyssquick]

Yeah... I work with mycelium- it's a bit of an extremophile when it comes to substances we consider toxic to life-- fungi are capable of enzymatic reaction unlike any other life-form.

Oil is likely not the main food source (though Paul does breed types towards that goal). Organic matter is often mixed in some amount to help the proliferation of the organism (give it a head start) and the fungus then breaks down both the organic matter and the harmful contaminated soil. The fungus adapts.

[abyssquick]

It's hard to say, this is just a succinct presentation. If there was already enough organic matter in the soil- then perhaps nothing was mixed in. Maybe they used one of Paul's strains bred to prefer hydrocarbons.

A little more detail would help-- but suffice to say this is not joke. What Paul is doing here is truly revolutionary.

[mycomind]

Stamets is a true genius, by studying his and Terence Mckenna's writings I was able to achieve the single most important personal insight of 56 years of living on this planet. I am happy to have lived at the same time in history as Paul and Terence, both Buddhas without a doubt!

[GreenPlanetTV]

Mushroom Magic or Mushroom Mayhem? Great video. Fascinating stuff.

[RockinJoeDavis]

Good work Paul, the planet loves you. I remediate sites for a living, bag up these babies and sell them! Make this stuff injectible and you'll be off to the races!

[TricksAre4Figs]

who wouldn't give this a 5 star rating? retards

[aj915]

Thank you, this is wonderful!

[dinevus]

oh, this is amasing natural mechaniisam put in mmotion, just  great natural cycle, suported by inteligent activitie.

[Kane9378]

nice vid man...i'm giving a paper on Iraq bioremediation i might show this vid as an example any more?