This has so much cool information about heat that I just have to share it! Have mushrooms ever been put to such non-culinary great use ever before? Tiny homes warmed by fungi. Yes, you too can get your very own cozy pine nest. I’m not kidding. They’re not kidding. It’s for REAL. Imagination rules when it comes to creating POSITIVE change.
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Mushroom® Materials were inspired by the woods of Vermont as a replacement for plastic foams. Ecovative’s patented process combines agricultural byproducts with fungal mycelium, a natural, self-assembling binder, to literally grow high performance insulation. We grew a tiny house on a trailer as a radical demonstration of this technology, and this is now available for sale as a kit. The tiny house market is small but growing rapidly, and we see this as a proving ground for the $21B rigid board foam insulation market.
Rigid board insulation like extruded polystyrene is made of finite petrochemicals, and often includes high global-warming potential blowing gasses that seep out over time, lowering the aged R-value. Loose fill and batt insulation can settle, especially in a movable tiny house, which compromises effectiveness. In order to meet fire safety codes, nearly all rigid board and loose fill insulation materials are made with harsh flame…
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bearspawprint said,
November 25, 2013 at 12:07 am
🙂
Dennis the Vizsla said,
November 24, 2013 at 10:03 pm
I seem to remember reading about this in a New Yorker article a year or two ago and thinking it sounded brilliant. Of course calling it a “Mushroom House” makes me expect to find a Smurf living in it …
slpmartin said,
November 23, 2013 at 7:51 pm
What an interesting idea.
47whitebuffalo said,
November 24, 2013 at 7:25 pm
I definitely think it is. And those tiny houses would be wonderful to plant just about anywhere.