the thoughts of ours we say there is never giving up every weekend on d. w. patrick madison, her son is a my college, it's his research and to funky, focuses on the use as the material of the future. using my ceiling and the spread like network of fungal roots, he's growing the slips that today he's bringing here to try to tie piece to that. how is the time will vironment is crying out for biodegradable materials and in that are less energy intensive to produce energy in things he's present to you that

he is free, such a deep and his fascination with funky vmc, montalvo, you can see a cloudy growth here so in the future, i like to see the fungus fill up the whole dish. so this is the one we'll use. the patrick mona is a plan in even if he likes to use an old fashioned hand costs he's researching the way, funding could change on lines. this industrial area in edmond because a, some of the sun used to be the size of a vist coast 5 a century. it was the largest employer in the area until the phone went bankrupt in 2009, leaving the ground heavily contaminated. let's see if he wins the remediation contract

. patrick mona intends to solve this contamination problem with funky, the tombstones that the, the state of our planet emissions, the state of the ground is willful. and it's getting worse that a lot of soil is degrading and it's loaded with heavy metals, especially in urban region them. it's all about finding future oriented solutions. patrick moon is facebook foraging spot is on the other side of the sun. here he can gather what he needs for his work sunday, which could help remediate the contaminated industrial area. the deities involved copies mission i often came walking in this wood is a child of it's where i grew up 9 fall cities below. my father is also in my college just on the from the research here. a few me gave him of the some vague i learned a lot from his internet so that he sparked my interest in nature. so i'm gonna hang

anything off to these mysterious organisms and not the plants. no animals, they form their own. patrick moon is picky about his mushrooms. he needs special types of special tasks. the top gets most today today. i've still got 2 or 3 mushrooms on my wish list for material development, antique clue. so keep, there are 2 or 3 types of bracket. fungus. i'd like to find now to use and my next few months work next and thought, oh no. he gets lucky and finds again, no damage, which is just right for his research. he's not keen on the idea of ordering from the on the internet or the little calling loki funky. just work much better in my lab than the thunder you can buy, just anywhere. i'm get calls and to see for even you here, i've never worked out why you can help you,

but for me that's what works and think. so let's, he's mandate no, no used to be a joiner. he also studied product design, but now he devotes himself to funky research the, the best finds from his research, a multiply to you in his lab, using a nutrients solution in a petri dish. the women from pearsons for each thing. when you talk about funky, most people think of mushrooms, you put them, but that's just the fruit body that grows above the ground, like an apple on a tree, cut the 50 fifty's and the root body is the reproductive structure, right? then the actual funky is the huge network of my celia. i'm in the ground in bold and bidding. his goal is to breed fungal, my ceiling. i'm here in the lab as it forms the basis of his work

in the audit and all to see on tuesday, those one was in the fridge for 6 months. in hibernation, as it were. can you now it's slowly growing of cool cuz i have to intervene and time for it to thrive. that's what we're doing now. and then i found my favorite time and they are all growing uniformly of excel. and i just have a look showing me and my mother and i just recently moved into one of these labs on the edge of the sink contamination area he wants to remediate. he's been carrying out preliminary tests for a while. this aquarium allows him to examine the results sorry to share exchange, you say this rich funky works best with which plants and bacteria to reach the best results on the sides. he's

conducting parallel experiments with willow plants which have proved successful in similar trials. the trips of the roots deep into a kind of fungal brute, so called liquid my celia, to get as much fungus as possible on the young roots. the interaction been work similarly to the beach locks. the vi thank the holdings and seen the willows extract the sink from the ground, but often, but they need the funky to do so to speak, the funky pass those inc onto the trees to the roots are done decent synchronize on the building authority. what? so the trees then concentrated into the leaves and the branches, right? then you can s at least 2000000 spaces of funky, exist worldwide. many living symbiosis with certain tree and bacteria spaces, according to estimates on the one percent is known. so it's time yet funky,

determine important processes in the lives they are increasingly in demand, especially in the biotech sector. the hope is that the new materials based on the phone go, my c, m could replace list sustainable materials. the scene of a, from the found who the institute for applied pulling the researching potsdam, has been eagerly awaiting this package. it contains and let the substitute mushroom data that has been dyed and waxed a just a set stuff. this is a fungal material i sent for processing. my gosh, the main task was to dye the original color. you already know they did a good job of it or found it could be turned into a hand bag or something similar. so now i'm talking to what i said off all that kind of scheme of the use. this is fine. fungal threats to create the live up. his goal is to produce it on a launch scale, substitute live the is an increasingly high demand in the textile industry. in the

production process, he makes use of a special property of the phone call my cnn to the fine roots dental grow in the legal way. but in a 3 dimensional jungle forming structure that can hold carriers substrates together . how does that looks good? so the customer will write the parents of the box and the screws relatively quickly and doesn't really need any lighting tape and die. we have the idea that we can produce the materials without using too much energy and resources to find much out and has materials, which ideally are recyclable and contribute to the circular economy. doesn't cost off. i mean, it's not like the usual linear economy where you take something, use it, and it throws away from the bank. in terms of texture, it's much like animal lives up. this bag is human, the show piece. mushroom. let the products of actually being made from tyndall

or to fungus for a long time. in romania distribution still exists today, but the material is comparatively red. so production is limited to the wants to change that via diagnosis. and that's why you're thinking a bit further on bassoon forces. i'm going to produce larger quantities, so we can produce more quickly, often that i couldn't see and can, but it can take years from this like this to grow until it's finally ready. it's done hype, emulation of the basic formula to the material is simple in a book, as we're trying to nutrients such as will go serial starch to the phone, go my ceiling. once mixed together, the growth process is triggered. the result is quite remarkable. this is what the strongest length looks like in its full state. it resembles a huge list on, you know, the level has matured and innovation room of,

to just 2 weeks. a much faster process than with kind of hot unitedhealthcare and it looks pretty good. what kind of actually flies you can pull it off quite easily . as you can see, one of the size of the sub strata hanging from the mushroom leather slips tot, a little hang petals. later, he's constantly finding the recipe. no, it's up to mom. i've tried a few different substructure combinations, and it's always exciting to find out how it works. this is the model. it can be easily peeled off. helpless is probably the material has turned out. it does not have soft or hard. it is hot on. that's always an exciting moment, the mental it's important to honda scene of the that his product is 100 percent organic. in the material test to mushroom 11 now has to prove that it's durable stretchable and 10

resistant he's looking to optimize that as much as possible. industry specifications of federal district. so it's a good result. we can work with this. yeah. yeah. this is all just showing a great thing about this work, is it so much is still a noon, or you can be experimental. one flight inject vanya to mission. i might discover a fungus that is an ideal as a leather substitute for that just best ticket that it might be able to break down a plastic, for instance, plastic up on what on. so unless there is a lot of potential importance out there is still so much to discuss about funky new ways of working with them and benefiting from their affects or imagine all the time. for example, in medical research or in agriculture,

the in the sun, patrick luna is mixing up a special recipe. the carry a material is a hydrogen made from potato starch. this top and he's strong. this will be used in a vineyard where 1 may get his hired his services. mission mission, he just disclosed by mixing the liquid might seal him up 12 different types of funky for the find some citibank, together with a hydro channel which is able to store extremely large quantities of water, experiencing loss at suspension at the seat and run winery increasing the dry somebody, supposing a big problem for the wine girl, is looking for ways to counteract whether extremes calls on the climate process.

patrick moon, a sprays the my ceiling, i'm solution from his live onto the roots of the vines. the idea is that the funky can use the low my see little filaments to drove water and you trans, out of the depth and support the plants in times of trouts that you implants. and is this except extremely effective with young plants. i mean, broken in a dry summer when it doesn't rain for 3 or 4 months and even then sometimes up to 30 percent of the plants died. if they don't get enough water, fountain was initially can, you can be, they sit there and called in such extreme situations. funky, can provide the winemaker nor a brush, mutual cause of the winery from his father. when punch in the vines, some rose would not mike arised, because the liquid joe had run out. the wheels

a different speed visible on see if you can see a difference very clearly, i would say. and so a lot of them didn't thrive. the leaves are much lower than the others in this plot folder. that's right. because i'd say one in 10 didn't thrive if it's in sales could fall. and yes, then it happens that replanted in plots 18 or 19 months of life. but we didn't think about michael, rising them, and it can be nice mid august because he didn't get the we can still do with now holding. that would be great if it's still worth a tune. you know, let's see. she was skeptical at the beginning, but now nor branch made is completely convinced by the phone go. sheila it's, it's of, it's obvious that it's really helped other people. of course, there are lots of other factors that play a role to god. i'm convinced by this whole system. it's been so definitely. so they've been gone since it's the male $0.06 for patrick man.

from tranquil light. listen to the lane. micro biologist best to ensure that is another fun, funky. he's found another useful them. not yet food. he gained his bachelor's degree and then found at a stop shop. the focus of fungus works just like classic styrofoam is very short resistant. we are making use of its properties and we thought, why don't make a bicycle helmets, how you doing? research is one thing. launching a product on the market is a nozzle when it's succeed, bastion to the develop the project with 2 colleagues at the institute of biotechnology at the technical university of berlin. a center of funky research assistance of water. this is our incubating report. everything grows is in here, but here we can see the different stages of groups. this is just being inoculated, and you can see any of the white dish fungal, my celia and growth. yet all that time,

5 minutes is growing completely after 2 weeks. as we see here, this is completely white, and it's already a solid bias, one team of lucas funding, and then test stuff. the waste agricultural materials formed the basis for a home which show once again, the team does focus, has proven particularly suitable. 8 grew through the substrate for 12 days before being chopped into small pieces as to how many of us so we have the for actually shredded my cyliam composite. here is somebody, this is prestone everywhere onto these individual particles, and i fill it in here on that and then it carries on going on next step. you know, if i touch on some further details in the spaces between, within my sylium and at the end, we have us form like material for a helmet. let's try to have the lid is put back on and the dish is put in the incubator room to finish growing for another 2 to 3 weeks

the past you and she but has already gone many of these almost common bad like samples, the slices of fungus will later be used to test the safety of the material that should be 9 to, to soft know, to crumbling. how exactly is the product optimized? the positive is in just we see here that it's slightly whitish oliver does. hatcher ones for us. that means the shock absorbing properties of the fungus are evenly spread. i can show from how to test the most fundamental fact. and i've always has to make sure you do a proper job. so you can produce and sell a product that meets the quality standards office of credit invest credited spend at all. because sometimes bastion cupid works closely with an industrial

partner. the company you fix is interested in his products and ski whole months of being discussed, as well as bicycle helmets, initial tests of search to find the materials excellent impact resistance. but a number of issues still need resolving stiver fund requires a lot of fossil energy bond, it's water repellent, and durable, fungus based helmet has to compete with that as well. i'm your best it size of here . we have a sustainable coating stones. and um, we have already done test with the coating on our helmet and time to make it whether proof that me to even get tough estimates. um, but we haven't yet tested what happens when it comes into contact with sweat for a whole year yet. and then yeah, long sized tolvine booked, but these are all problems we can find solutions to, hopefully not, but that's what gets a, how does lose own fungal based building materials could massively benefit the environment. the construction industry has an enormous c o 2 footprint. so there's

a lot of room for improvement at an international building, competition in brooklyn's house university change presenting environmentally friendly building methods and materials that work is in line with the use green deal which aims to promote circular economy. professor de cable from the call through institute of technology and his team have come up with a wooden house on stilts, intended as an extension to an existing building. table has been working with fungus based building materials for a long time. the panels to sound proofing and installation. for example, diesel bond is this wall is 100 percent suitable for the circular economy. and so you can see either you can reuse it afterwards when the of all he does, you can chop it up again and add new fun gets bores and anointed shaquanda to before you can con, posted all she couldn't accomplish to you. so this is how we want to build in

future. no shots, but we don't want to put more pollutants into our environment. going forward, building should be seen as a store of materials operating and cycles that succeeds. it will be the end of our resource problems and put it in the cable hopes that more attention will finally be paid to the many potential uses of funding. in the long term, he's convinced that sustainable building materials can improve the climate balance . is these a bottom right, it's a potential uses of funky in the future, are incredibly wide range of rules. we're only seeing the tip of the iceberg right now when it comes to understanding, exploring and making use of them. so these updates for students who are flushing until let's put some of the cable in his team. a working hard to ensure that the environmental targets sit by the e. you reached the thanks to their innovative use of fungus they,

when the building competition info, patel, green, do you understand the green deal actually wants the construction industry to go completely circular by 2050. all these. then we need to do more research to increase the percentage of organic and ground building materials, including fungus, to get to, to why on, there's so few fungus based products on the market. so thought best into bitten belly and has one possible answer. his helmets with an in a shell of fungus will not be produced for the time being let's go to the site that's applicable was a box at the startup project for now, due to patent problems. if austin does us, we knew that patterns exist in this field script, especially from the american company echo of each of on. then we did some research and it showed that these patents are very cetera. oscar, so we would infringe them. we didn't see any way of writing that really phillips

and button on down the phones kind of because they ended so again, he has since closed down his style shop function, saying that the payton's already awarded effect almost every development in this field. the payments were like very generally to materials that are self supporting and held together by fungal, my, cnn, apparently, 9th and my celia and know the substrate, use to know individual manufacturing steps was specified in more detail. sometimes i find you and i think someone had a very good patent attorney who wrote a very good patent for the company. so yeah, who just attend scheme as with us, that's have 1st glance it all same super into the tip to someone who isn't very well versed in the subject of a tooth on that. and it did a student complex involved with the not just the use the right complex words. and it also has incredibly innovative and relatively specific. but it's only when you knew the subject matter that you realize, okay,

almost everything is covered by this patent. ok, so fast i left the rest of it up. could i just ship it down to the loan with this problem? he sees large parts of the industry affected by it. let's just do everyone who wants to produce my silly encompass it's commercially, has to deal with this. i think global. so it's not as it's a side us. so you either find an agreement or you don't do. it's a tall job. what i'm on the list of items, i am the, the 1st patents will expire and if you use some researches plan to sit down before launching their own work, patrick noone is work in switzerland could also be hunted by existing patents. how does he feel about this 90 9 am yourself to protect my opinion on

patent and i'll use that. they can hinder innovation, delay innovation. and actually i think these novel materials should be spread by open source, the all the and so 9. so, and so the way fungus itself spreads, it's asking me this, the beauty i'll have to, and fortunately moon that has spread his risk soil remediation. his 2nd main stay is free of such restrictions. unimportant, amazing is taking place today. scientists from 0 a could come to an on site appointment at the industrial wasteland. m a broker to accompany the project. patrick luna and erica cruz, the managing director of disco squeeze interviewing ocoee, who is jointly responsible for the remediation. explain the situation. one of the month effects you can see that it rains last night. you can see the puddles that self compute. the biggest sink contamination is actually in the puddles. this is

the do gooders because i mean all to me think specialist that the environmental office responsible for the side must now decide how to remediate the aim is to use the funky to lower the contamination levels. the parties involved is to make the will take at least 10 years. the project also has financial advantages. if everything goes well, it will cost just interested at the conventional remediation. according to every cruise, you have an alternate full, we're not planning to build on this area in the next 10 or 15 years. so i thought this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to take advantage of this method. thus we owe it to the next generation, but if we do this well here, then it's a job well done. that happened with all the schools come off. it's a specialist agencies get their approval launch scale willow planting will take

place soon. the willows have so far proven particularly suitable in interaction with the microns or funky. the contamination branches could then be regularly cut off and that in germany to research projects of already underway to remediate soil with funky is best the best way to fix this problem. i really want the problem to be solved and then because with conventional sort of remediation, the problem is that it might be nicely labeled and reduce pollution and but then it in the landfill. so the problem is not really solved visit because i can't have a clear conscience about this here. if it's been removed from here, it's still waiting to be solved somewhere else. it's quite simply our duty on sort of a priest that symbol. so how patrick noone to sees that he knows there's still a lot to look on about funding. is there a personal view is let's think of any nation if we don't learn to live by natural principles. sapiens is i don't have much hope for us. fish, fish,

lots. yeah, this is so that's how i see it on it. and so without somebody shelf, we won't make it to you. it's the cost divide, so funky will do their thing with or without us. only the question is, do we accept the role of funky and use them? you'd say i want not since the board. so do we say let's drive off the edge of the cliff on getting caught in on. somebody will survive either way. they do too but hopefully it's patrick bruno and other experts continue with the plan during look. we'll soon be harnessing the potential of funky to address global challenges. the

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