This mushroom brick could replace concrete
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- Опубликовано: 1 фев 2021
- 🍄 The world is addicted to concrete, and it’s making climate change a lot worse. But there’s a new generation of futuristic, sustainable building materials on the way. We try out mushroom-bricks as a future material by growing a brick ourselves and putting it to the test. 🍄
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What futuristic building material should we look into next?
not futuristic, but presently the majority of the bricks around the world are made of clay, not cement
@@late-riser I wouldn't be so sure. Of course it depends on where you live but most building sites I'm familiar with (France) seem use bricks made of cement
I see the implementation, it's not impossible, it'll just do take a long process not unless they found a faster way to mass produce the same mushrooms
@@late-riser Not sure about most bricks are clay, pretty sure here in Asia(Philippines) we mostly use concrete bricks, same goes to our fellow neighboring countries, Heck we just pour down concrete itself.
Polyactic acid plastocs
*Everybody is a gangsta until the building starts growing itself*
Thanks for the nightmare.
There is a concrete that already does that: it has bacteria that eats sugar and it "shits" kind of a biological concrete . Perhaps by mixing these two you can have a really biological active house!
@@Kazenikatze Golden sub-comment
@@Kazenikatze Imagine eating your own house😂😂
@@bruceluiz how r u gonna give it so much sugar?
I know exactly what kind of mushroom related epiphany he had, lol
🤫
I DON'T GET IT. NOT FUNNY.
@@twr412 “magic mushrooms,” most likely
I knew it from the moment he mentioned "medicinal."
A magic one.
So, William desided to get into the science of mycology after tripping on shrooms? Cool
Well, me too.
but when will he do a black alert and activate spore drive?
@@alveolate awesome reference
I’ll probably do the same lol but trying to get with DMT first
okokokokok
When I made my thesis in engineering I realized how serious the cement problem in construction. We literally don't have an alternative for a load bearing concrete. Everything shown in this vid is architectural, the structural materials are the most important.
As an engineer I struggled to watch this video. They asked the mechanical engineer for help to test the brick, but failed to give any proper data from the outcome of the tests. Stack the bricks on top and look at it to see how much it deformed? I mean, wtf, they didn't even bring anything to measure the deformation. Then they lit it on fire before they did a proper decompression test to check what sort of "yield strength" it had, neither did they give any sort of strength data from the other company that had made a bunch of these mushroom bricks. I'm just left sitting here shaking my head...
Lol and concrete is one of the most recycle able material in the world
>we literally don't have an alternative
Now correct me if I'm wrong, but I've literally got photo evidence of this, but here in Newfoundland where bedrock isn't very far down, I've actually found that the oldest buildings were bricked directly onto the bedrock itself. The building in question that I have photos from was a mixed use 3 floor building plus a basement. It was mined to foundation form with a pick and shovel and then built up from there.
For using mushrooms to become a viable building material, we should look at cost of the material, speed, durability, elasticity, and water/fire/heat/wind/cold-resistance of the material. When everything is good there is another problem and that is the transportation and the local production. If the material is harder to produce than concrete or locally sourced material, less developed countries will not try to use the new material.
they are experimenting
Doubtful that its viable. Def going to take alot more time, and processes to make these mushroom bricks, def not sure i would buy any improved enviromental impact compared to its competitors
@@titanblooded6222 There's still tons of research and experimentation that can be done. So the question of "viability" probably won't be conclusively answered for a while. Remember we've been improving the recipes and manufacturing methods of concrete for something like 1000 to 1500 years. Mushroom-architecture is pretty new by those standards.
...and storage and time. I've a lot of free storage room on my farm and I can wait half a year for a reasonable amount of building material, so I am going to try that.
@@hypernewlapse still wouldn't come close to how cheap concrete is or how easy it is to make.
"experimenting with them for culinary value"
Yep, we all been there, until they banned selling them in the shops
culinary and medicinal value
@Ankit Meher psychedelic substance found in some mushrooms that's why
@@smashandburnyt6938 they can breed the psychedelics out the mycelium
Mushrooms thrive off of dead animals and decompose them that should tell u something already
Plus I think? Some of them obviously are deadly but some I think are associated with drugs
When you done the heat test it would have been better if you would have done the opposite and tested the clay brick for its heat protection as well. I'm not doubting the mushroom bricks proformas, just that I would of liked to have seen a direct comparison that's all
Right, and if you water them would they spring back up? If its for buildings or construction. If it could then it would become deadly falling bricks. This seems like a publicity stunt for funds
I agree the heat/insulation test was not very good. I think most building materials would have performed the same, plus not catching fire?
A comparission would have been good to know how it.... COMPARES :D
This video doesn't showcase it, but researches possibly would have already done these tests, plus the other tests like abrasion, expansion, etc. Since this has already been used in construction.
@@Sivah_Akash Then why not include this? If it is to show how good this material is at least providing the data from the papers. It seems their research wasnt very throrough?
@@sergitanderson7541, those tests require specialized equipment, which is difficult to do during the pandemic. Also I think the larger point of this video is to share that alternate building materials exist and not about the specific engineering behind them.
I do agree with you that for folks who are a bit more interested in this, a more in depth comparison would have been nice. Also I do think the research wasn't thorough, maybe because this is still a new field?
Do you know why people want to buy a building made out of this? Because there is "mush room" in there
if you made this joke you are a dad
Oh hey dad!
no.
ba dum tsss
And still there mush room for advances in the technology.
I feel like I've heard this idea before, the idea of making bricks from some sort of fibrous mushroom materials. I'm pretty sure this technology's been around for at least 10 years now
Yeah saw that at the science fair few years ago
Yeah, it's kinda stucked
Just because you saw it ten years ago doesn’t mean this isn’t new and innovative tech. It takes a long time to develop a new technology, and it takes a long time to get it to production.
@@Antenox and it takes a few seconds to copy something!
@@Antenox perfect answer
"Am I allowed to say anything" This is Verge not Vice 😂
"I don't know anyone else who has made mushroom bricks before"
Lady, literally the guy you just interviewed has made mushroom bricks.
@@oreoswithasideofmilk9703 7:17
Anyone else implies other than the guy who is interviewing.
Mycotexture has been a thing since the mid-2000s
Paul Stamets is a passionate mushroom scientist on the west coast who thinks mushrooms are essential to saving the planet. Brilliant and a little kooky, he is great to follow as well.
The way the brick started disintegrating when she put the fire out isn't filling me with confidence
Americans make a lot of their homes out of wood anyway
Well if your house is on fire bricks are your last worry.
I'd say I learned close to nothing factual, besides that you can turn mushrooms into brick shaped objects.
It's almost like someone wants us to forget wood..."grows on trees" .... now if we could probably log....*sigh*
@@Juber777 ahh yes, how has no one ever thought of using wood for building??? you‘re so smart dude
@@Juber777 yeah, considering that basically every large forests are burning down rn, that might not be the best idea for now
@@pakdhenar if they probably did fire prevention by logging all the "bug wood," they just leave dead trees everywhere, even after the fires they don't actually do maintenance on the forest unless it's colvert drains and "log brick"(logs chained together to stop river water eating the bank)
"Can I show you something?"
- No
The End.
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Founded by the people who care the Biden administration 😂10 billion dollars program
hahhhaha
He likely forgot to mention psilocibe cubensis in his cultivated mushroom species
"forgot"
"Can i show you something?"
"Well no, i'd rather you not"
"Oh, ok.."
"Nice brick"
So hypothetically with this I can craft shroomite armor.
Or grow some mooshrooms off it
What stops pests and insects just eating away the mushroom bricks?
Yeah and how do they think this will last +30 years without needing repairs ? What about heavy rains, cold temperatures (-20C or more), mold? This seems like such a far fetched idea.
I'm generally curious as to how they plan on keeping the mycelium from degrading.. it seems like it would be the perfect medium for fungi to incubate.
@@eKSe1337 The same way we kept wood structures up for centuries, paint.
@Ankit Meher several animals eat fungi. Some fungi, for example chanterelle, mushrooms are edible for humans.
@Ankit Meher we eat mushrooms, which are composed of mycelia.
Best part is when the Lexus logo vanishes right when he talks about tripping on shrooms.
you'll still need the cement to merge those into walls.. right? right...
But they can actually grow attaching each other like shown in that Paris exhibit which is insanely cool
with composite non-fried clay bricks we used "composite" clay mortar (reinforced with barley husks) - totally sustainable
come to think of it... we were much, much more eco-friendly in the nineties, when we were much poorer and did not have enough money for cement (other than for the foundation) :) (speaking of Moldova)
Not necessarily
I don't think it can replace concrete, but it maybe will be used to build small buildings like the ones we have made from wood.
Since I was a kid I imagined it could be a suitable replacement for studs in wood framing. If you can get the fibers long enough and in one direction, you could get a product light enough and sturdy enough to replace wood.
Wood is actually very strong and can make much bigger structure, when engineered and reinforced properly. This would likely be able to replace brick, and if play our cards right, it could replace concrete. However, we would have to understand how tall the ancient giant mushrooms got to.
imagine having mushroom allergies and moving to a house made of them...
imagine to have a brain and actually use it...
You know that wouldn‘r be a problem at all? The bricks do not have any spores that could cause allergies and if you start eating your house, there is sth else wrong with you
I'm thinking it might be a decent replacement for the wood used in house construction.
But wood is already renewable???????
@@sandworm9528 Have you checked the cost on wood lately. Here in Canada it's ridiculous! About $50 for a sheet of plywood if your lucky. It was $75 for a long time.
Bruh, the mushroom brick caught FIRE
We need a full documentary on the mushroom guy. Absolute legend.
2:36 what's funjaiiiii?
you sound like a funjai at parties
What a great topic to explore, and literally every person you interviewed, William, David, and Sonia, were all such cool guides for you to interview! Can't wait to hear more about their work, they seem like they're going places.
There is a full fledged company called mycotech that create this kind of brick and many more
I know a mushroom scientist, he's a really fun guy
This was so unscientific. Good to know, but could you please do the tests better? This hurt.
What's next, clay bricks?
:D
Imagine living in a mushroom villages like smurfs
This was fantastic. The introduction was really engaging and the guests were delightful. I would love to hear more about this topic. Thanks!
Thanks for watching, Mike!
I've seen cordyceps growing in my college's lab. It seems like a very delicate mushroom to isolate and grow in a lab, but in the nature it grows so easily. It's the biggest problem with trying to grow fungi in an isolated environment, it seems so frail and prone to contamination, while in nature it grows seemingly effortless.
keep in mind the word "could"
The idea that you can dump some wood waste and mycelium into a mold and come back few weeks later to have a strong, lightweight, insulating building material is pretty amazing. I imagine you could add some kind of reinforcing strands into the material to make it stronger in tension.
I really love bricks and brick bonds and all that. That being said, good old fashion terracotta bricks ARE sustainable and they can bear loads. They're made of dirt, the most readily available material on the planet.
With that considered, I don't know what niche mushroom bricks are really trying to fill, from what I've seen.
I think you would really have to utilize the fact that they grow to be useful.
An idea I had was the fact that mycelium naturally bonds to wood, which is another building material. If you are really able to establish concrete level of strength, that could be a great natural combo.
Maybe try mixing it with hemp to give it greater strength and for a greater capacity for fire resistance (as well as many other advantages)?
Great work!
Hemp may be a better building material and much more available
William lowkey the most chill dude ever
imagine a self growing house. “oops, spilled some sugar on the floor! ah well, guess we’ll be growing a new table by next month
That sounds like the premise for a Goosebumps book tbh.
its all normal until nintendo starts growing toads out of this
I think this has a lot of potential to replace packaging such as styrophoam , and maybe be a good replacement to glass wool and acoustic foam , but I think it might be a waste of time to look at it like a building material , it's biodegradable and not very strong , I think they will be better of investing their time on these other uses .
The tests were soo unscientific.
Not what I expected from a "science" channel
Mojang: "Write that down, write that down!"
Wow! I help the neighbor with his wood furnace, and he brought a load of wood, with many mushrooms turned to wood, on the trunks of the locust trees!!! How fabulous that I find this (or did it find me?) Thank you!
This is one of those times where mushroom experts are super heroes!
I don't think I've seen anything more "nature-is-metal" than a mushroom that kills insects 😳
It s not killin them, is growing on dead insects
The cordiceps mushroom make infected insects suicidal zombies to grown in his bodies
@@cx24venezuela infected insects aren't suicidal per se, they're just being eaten from the inside out
Even if this needs another decade or more of development and testing, or can only be used for certain temporary builds, we very much need new building materials from "green" (renewable) sources! I'm very excited about the potential of this science.
Probably it's gonna be very expensive. This cannot become an alternative if it not cheaper than normal brick
@@B__SYAHRULMUBAROK Like I said, it needs more development. We don't even know if it could be cheaper or not because it's so early in development.
2:14 Cordyceps fungus
Everyone who played last of us: Don't mess with that or else, you'll become a clicker
Wake up, Verge Science
We have a mushroom brick to make
Awesome video and what an awesome guy!
OK, but, what if you want your buildings to last a long time?
Will we have to stick to concrete for that?
If you keep fungi dry they might last longer, if you don't the rebar might still endanger the concrete building.
I don't know about replacing, coexistence makes more sense.
And all I know is that mushroom tastes good
Can this brick self-regenerate? They did put it in a oven and so fungus are probably dead but it'd be cool to see a self-repairing brick.
My reaction as a recent highschool graduate. "Ah, I wish I had a research idea as good as this."
This feels like a child’s idea of what research is, I’m sure you’ll have a better one
It would be amazing if fungus could replace a fraction of plastics.
Very beautiful!
Thanks!🌱
the question is.... can you travel at an instance through the mycelium network? Star Trek
asking the real questions
The miracle of regular concrete is it can be same heat transfer rate as steel pole support. If mushrooms concrete don't have this, then no more skyscrapers.
Turning mushrooms into bricks?
Didn't we hear that somewhere before?
Grounded fan?
Chills everywere
How would waste change if you painted the bricks? Also, could you grow the bricks in a way to make it looks nice?
He seems like a pretty fun guy!
Ok, I was legitimately impressed with the stress test.
That dude with mushrooms is super cool.
William seems like a fun guy.
Terraria : I have see this one
Scientists : How you see it's already new.
It would of been a better story to cover how David Benjamin produced so many bricks, his experimentation on the structural properties, and the challenges he faced. That would of been more informative and convincing then someone's backyard experiments.
As others have said, reproducibility, cost, and structural properties will need to be matured severely to be a competitor for bricks alone (forget about poured concrete). I'm sure there are researchers looking at ways to produce greener concrete so that would erode further interest in this area.
That sounds very nice and all, but I wonder how much would large scale production of these bricks compare to the production of concrete..
Very good. It’s high time fungus began pulling its weight.
He Said “experimenting with them for medicinal use” 😂😂 me to my guy
Imagine how long it takes to make a brick
Excuse me, cordyceps is off limits for experimentation, thank you for coming to my ted talk.
Imagine coming home and all the bricks to your home is gone.
This! I LOVE this!!! :-) thank you Verge Science. Its not that its fully proven but the fact that people are trying to solve the problem , I love it!
*SMB1 1-1 theme starts playing*
Hello, I am a PhD student mainly work with the mycelium composites. May I know from where I can get this cracked cap polypore mushroom? I tried but it seems its not available readily.
Your help would be really appreciated.
The Brick is the most interesting thing on the net
Mushroom brick: wait for me
I had a dream recently about filling the inside of building materials with fungi.... neat to then come across this video
When he mentioned the mushroom's names in latin, some of them sounds like magic spells lol
Some are indeed magical
@@justinus64 one of them gave him the epiphany lol
It's all nice but remember basic rule in civil engineering is "to make structure strong and durable make it heavier" that's how roman structures stand tall till this date.
This is very cool.
PS: Reminded me of my high school science project or when we experimented with cow dung as bricks.
What type of high school science project was that??
@@florac.6784 We had investigative science projects during our high school years and the cow dung bricks plus the dental floss from water lily fibres were the special ones I truly enjoyed doing.
@@simone222 That actually sounds really interesting!! By the way, did the cow dung smell bad?
@@florac.6784 If it's already dry, then it doesn't smell that too bad anymore. I'm saying this as an olfactory hypersensitive. lol
The issue with this is you don’t need to feed bricks, the thing of mushrooms is they normally thrive off of dead bodies. But the thing being no one is going to actually feed this fungi and when it’s in mass production they may start to fall short of their potential
I mean I’m not 100% sure how you’ll kill the fungi so it stays completely still and not overgrow or how it’ll grow as time goes on im not sure if it’s a wise decision to replace concrete with this
Does the oven fully kill the mushroom. Also what happens when it comes back in contact with water?
"I found someone who does"
this is gonna go an interesting direction
In what application would this be practical for replacing concrete?
*Stardew valley ost: "the smell of mushroom"(fall) starts playing*
I've never seen some one this happy to show a brick lol
Mushroom bricks... do they give of VOCs? How well they tolerate moisture? Do they go soft? Or start to grow mold?
Its good to see someone from the cities find a love for nature and a passion for science using nature.
K so need a eco-friendly motar mix to strengthen bonds between the brick building material. And to make a more fire-resistant sealer.
William is so cool. This guys so smart. KEEP IT UP MUSHROOM MAN
Dude, that Druid has crazy high Charisma.
"I have cultivated over 35 species of mushrooms, Cordyceps militaris, Tolypocladium ophioglossoides, Grifola frondosa, Hericium erinaceus, Hericium americanum, Panaeolus cambodginiensis, Psilocybe cubensis, Psilocybe cyanescens, Pholiota adiposa, jeeez there's so many latin names..."
I see the potential there. Alternative to packaging is a good start.
Possibilities are limitless. There have been instances of brick from waste materials, plastic as well. We need to stick to these alternate ideas and make them mainstream.
THAT is Dorohedoro!
Interesting, but issues such as durability problems over long time will arise once it gets used in a building. The original species of fungi used is growing on a tree and consuming wood from that tree to reach such sturdiness, which is why wood is used as a building material. Mixing wood pieces and this fungi might make for an interesting combination in addition to some rock mixed in.