Eben Bayer: Are mushrooms the new plastic?
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Uploaded by TEDtalksDirector on Oct 4, 2010
http://www.ted.com Product designer Eben Bayer reveals his recipe for a new, fungus-based packaging material that protects fragile stuff like furniture, plasma screens -- and the environment.
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There is 1 issue I see with this. The casings are made with plastics. I think that @vjacq88 is right about hemp, as it could be used to make the molds so you don't even need to use plastics. You just need enough demand so that they will be able to create a network of companies working and supplying the product; molds and the final product. You need a tax break to get more momentum.
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We can combine this with seeds, bioluminescent bacteria, and cyanobacteria to make amazing living architecture!!!
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Awesome talk, I signed in just to give you 'thumbs up'!
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... thank you... :-)
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you have some great stuff here
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love the video really good
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interesting video and very informative
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It's funny to say that this could be the future, but it's been naturally occurring for billions of years!
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Proud to be the 1000th person to LIKE this video :)
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good work here
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This is the future I want to be apart of.
ShadowCloud143 1 year ago 31
How about HEMP!
vjacq88 1 year ago 5