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Re:Mushrooms Can Eat Plastic, Petroleum and CO2 (2018) by macspoofing on Thursday December 03, 2020 @04:16PM (#25295094)
Come on, be serious. These kinds of science-y puff pieces come out every day, on all kinds of topics (I can't count the number of times claims around cancer cures, fusion reactors, new battery technology that's 1000x better, etc. are made). This is one engineering group making very preliminary case (that they may have embellished for the media attention - wouldn't the first time - see: recent "life on Venus claims"). It takes time and lots of effort to figure out if this new material can satisfy all the necessary constraints in order to scale to the market.
Re:Mushrooms Can Eat Plastic, Petroleum and CO2 (2018) by economusty on Thursday December 03, 2020 @05:40PM (#25296285)
And they ignore the viability of producing the object at scale. Making one and making one billion are worlds apart.