We can grow wood alternatives from mycelium!

[00:00:00]So, the density of wood is about.6 g per cubic centimeter. So, anything less than 1 g per cubic centimeter is going to float in water cuz that's the density of water. Maybe the microphone will pick up the sound when I knock on that. And so, it sounds exactly like wood. It feels exactly like wood. And again, we point to it as the best of both kingdoms cuz it's mostly this woody material that becomes the substrate of that, but this mycelial glue has the benefit of forming things like a leathery finish that we have on that because it creates a skin on the outside of that. And when we heat and compact that, it's it's basically like having woody material that when you look at it in cross-section, it has that graining to it of compacted particles.

[00:00:44]But then when you look at the surface of that where the skin of the fungal organism is meeting the heat and compaction, it turns into a leathery finish.