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it's beginning to seem that there's nothing this man can't do with fungi! in this same article Stamets discusses the intelligence of patterns like neural networks, mycelial networks and the internet. "A couple of years ago Stamets partnered with Battelle, a major player in the bioremediation industry, on an experiment conducted on a site owned by the Washington State Department of Transportation in Bellingham. Diesel oil had contaminated the site, which the mycoremediation team inoculated with strains of oyster mycelia that Stamets had collected from old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest. Two other bioremediation teams, one using bacteria, the other using engineered bacteria, were also given sections of the contaminated soil to test. "Lo and behold. After four weeks, oyster mushrooms up to 12 inches in diameter had formed on the mycoremediated soil. After eight weeks, 95 percent of the hydrocarbons had broken down, and the soil was deemed nontoxic and suitable for use in WSDOT highway landscaping. "By contrast, neither of the bioremediated sites showed significant changes. "It's only hearsay," says Bill Hyde, Stamets' patent attorney, "but the bacterial remediation folks were crying because the [mycoremediation] worked so fast." "And that, says Stamets, was just the beginning of the end of the story. As the mushrooms rotted away, "fungus gnats" moved in to eat the spores. The gnats attracted other insects, which attracted birds, which brought in seeds. "Call it mycotopia. ""The fruit bodies become environmental plateaus for the attraction and succession of other biological communities," Stamets says. "Ours was the only site that became an oasis of life, leading to ecological restoration. That story is probably repeated all over the planet."" http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/11/25/mushrooms/inde entire article @ x.html more info on mycotechnology can be found at the webpage of Stamets' family owned business: http://fungiperfecti.com/mycotech/index.htm |
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should be: http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/11/25/mushrooms/inde "entire article at x.html" |
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cool stuff! |
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indeed! i've been researching this use of fungus for a while and paul stamets is the only person i've read about who is taking this as seriously as he is. mushrooms could very well save us all! |
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neat.. ah, good ol' mushrooms... |
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yeah, neat. most people don't find it too interesting, but it may very well be revolutionary. fungi have been relavtively ignored by the various fields of science. only recently have ecologists come to understand how much of a keystone group of organisms the fungi are. it was actually thoguht for a while that they were just sort of there, a side project of the biological experiment, but it turns out out forests survive in mutual symbiosis with fungus. fungi gave us penecilin yet the pharm and med peoples haven't exactly jumped into fungus research. mycoremediation and myco filtration of pollutants... it seems too good to be true to me! |
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do you study biology stuff at university? |
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Mushrooms are fantastic. All of them. To say you hate a certain kind of mushroom makes you a mushroom racist. |
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i'm at the u of minnesota... was shooting for a plant bio degree, scraped that and decided to go for the environmental horticulture degree. i'll be pursuing the mycology on my own free time. |
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bump |
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maybe if you eat oyster mycelia you will get super powers!! hrm, or maybe you will die. Well take note of what happens. *eats some |
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you'd prolly end up consuming much dirt. |
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