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Mushroom Packaging

Posted 5 years ago by Holster in category: interesting

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DaveJoyce - 5 years ago [ Reply ]

Yeah, but how much does it cost compared to foam? You package a dozen eggs in this and the container for the eggs would probably cost more than the eggs! Look at their prices! https://mushroompackaging.com/pages/shop

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Jojo (guest) - 5 years ago [ Reply ]

And how much did it cost to use styrofoam when they invented it ? When it was all new and nobody new what it was ? And how much doest it cost to recycle plastic packagings ? It will cost way less if it's used more and more...

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DaveJoyce - 5 years ago

I'd bet a large sum of money that when styrofoam was first invented it was cheaper than this. And I agree they can get the price down with scale, but that doesn't mean it will ever truly compete with foam.

DaveJoyce - 5 years ago

Also, I looked it up and styrofoam isn't recycled, which means it just ends up in landfills.

Jojo (guest) - 5 years ago

Well I don't think we can afford to put styrofoam in landfills anymore.

DaveJoyce - 5 years ago

Sure we can. The earth is huge and we have plenty of space. And landfills produce methane which is used to create electricity to keep poor people warm. #HumanAchievement

Woofzappa - 5 years ago [ Reply ]

The thing can be composted but they don't take into account the amount of fossil energy that had to go into producing this elaborate piece of sustainable garbage

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DaveJoyce - 5 years ago

Thatâ€™s a good point when it comes to those absurd wind turbines, and electric cars. But I think these are actually not burdened by that factor, at least according to their website. But it also makes sense I think as theyâ€™re literally growing the products. Cool idea. Totally impractical.

Jojo (guest) - 5 years ago

And what amount of fossil energy does it take to grow mushrooms ? Compared to other materials made out of oil ?

Jojo (guest) - 5 years ago

What's the problem with wind turbines and electric cars ?

Woofzappa - 5 years ago

These puppies take days to grow and then need heat treatment. The moulds need sterilization every time, and the quantities of wood fiber needed for global mass production would be staggering. then there is the fact that the product is heavier than styrofoam, which would increase shipping fuel use.

DaveJoyce - 5 years ago

Wind turbines would not exist without fossil fuels. Plus the energy density they produce is extremely thin and propped up purely through virtue signaling tax subsidies. Theyâ€™ve never had to compete on merit. Itâ€™s like a runner in the 100k beating Usain Bolt because someone gave them steroids.

MartinMille - 5 years ago [ Reply ]

@Dave, methane is produced by organic waste in landfills not styrofoam.

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DaveJoyce - 5 years ago

Right, I was referring to the point that we â€œcanâ€™t affordâ€ to keep putting styrofoam in landfills. But landfills provide a good service to society so I donâ€™t have a big problem with them.

Jojo (guest) - 5 years ago [ Reply ]

"Plus the energy density they produce is extremely thin" That's nonsence, energy density is for storage systems. Do you mean capacity factor ? Well, first it's becoming better and better thanks to off-shore plants with bigger alternators, and second capacity factor is relevant when burning a combustible that has a cost. Wind turbines are using energy falling from the sky, that has no cost. Renewables and wind turbines are the only energy systems getting cheaper and cheaper. Tax subsidies won't be needed for long as some offshore wind farms are so profitable that some of them are launched without subsidies in Netherlands, Germany and France. Give me a nuke power plant that works without tax money...

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DaveJoyce - 5 years ago

The amount of energy potential itâ€™s has. A breeze can fly a kit, a teaspoon of black powder can blow up a stump. The density is so low it requires MASSIVE.amounts of land to get any energy from it. And when the wind stops blowing you gotta turn on the coal fired plants to keep the grid up. Wind and solar are just an ill-considered pipe dream. Nuclear is the future.

Jojo (guest) - 5 years ago

I don't know about that. We are making wind turbines bigger and bigger (12MW for the coming generation), so they require less and less space if you consider you need less of them for the same power (and maintaining costs drop too). It's not perfect and we still need something else as long as we can't store easily electricity for the days without wind. That's why adding wind,solar and hydro is one of the solutions, but still not perfect indeed. But I'd rather have a lot of space used for 25 years by some wind farms than having the same space used to store nuclear waste for a few thousand years, but that's a personnal choice. The choice not to put at stake the security of hundred of generations following me, just for my own little comfort. Huge investments have been made in nuclear technologies for the last sixty years, if the same money had been invested in renewable technologies, we would now know how to produce clean energy and how to store it, easily. Now investments go massively to renewables, but a lot of time was wasted.