Mycoremediation - Informative Speech

Hello. My name is Adam.

Sort it the environment.

Hopefully you care about it.

We've all seen the destruction that humanity has caused upon

our environment.

For instance, the 2000 and nine Gulf Coast oil spill.

Another is the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear meltdown.

And another is the chemical warfare that we seek in

temporarily in the Middle East.

Now, I've always been curious about the environment and wondered,

how can we clean it up, which has led me

to micro remediation.

So I want to teach you about micro remediation and

how it can both sustainably and cost effectively reduce the

effects of oil spills, radiation and even chemical warfare.

So, Michael Remediation let me start off a quote from

BBC research Micro remediation, sometimes referred to as fun guy

remediation or mushroom remediation, is a form of bioremediation that

uses fungi instead of bacteria to break down waste.

All that means mushrooms breaking down the waste that we

create in our environment.

So to start off, I'd like to talk about mycelium

Essentially mycelium, which I'll be using in my speech is

the tree.

It is the branches and the roots, while the mushroom

is the fruit or the apple that grows out of

it, meaning that when I speak about mycelium, I mean

the entire organism of the mushroom.

So you might be asking, How can mushrooms breakdown?

Crude oil?

So, for instance, let me explain.

Wood and oil have very similar structures, meaning that certain

types of mushrooms can break down oil.

Justus Well, as would because to them it's food.

So we see here.

In 2007, there's an oil spill in San Francisco people.

It made these mats filled with hair and oyster mushroom

mycelium to collect and break down.

The oil seems odd, but hair is a wonderful sponge

for oil, so the hair would absorb the floating oil

and the oyster mushrooms would break down the oil just

like food.

So, in other words, on land, we also see engine

oil being consumed by oyster mushrooms.

So much so.

In fact, in this experiment on a diesel contaminated maintenance

yard, thes oyster mushrooms grew to huge sizes.

They thrived and these wasteful environments that humanity has created,

so these humble mushrooms can also break down radiation.

Since 1986 we've seen these black mushrooms in Chernobyl, An

article speaking about these black mushrooms, the scientific American says.

Quote. He's melanin containing mushrooms.

Breeds absorb the high levels of energy and ionizing radiation

and somehow turn it into a biologically useful and benign

form akin to a dark and dangerous version of photosynthesis,

essentially meaning that these mushrooms, using Moellemann can consume the

vast amounts of radiation coming from Chernobyl and conferred into

energy like a plant, converts the radiation of the sun

and energy.

So what this means is source your mushrooms locally and

organically, but also these mushrooms have the ability to bio

accumulate radiation.

They can act like sponges like we've said So the

book Mycelium Running has stated that these mushrooms can absorb

quote 1 to 10,000 times and quote the amount of

ambient radiation in the environment, meaning that these mushrooms can

you act like sponges.

They can bio accumulate these huge amounts of radiation and

break it down.

So we see that these mushrooms, without being touched by

human hands, are already cleaning up our messes that we've

created in our environment.

Yeah, so, along with heavy duty radiation, we also see

these mushrooms breaking down chemical weapons used in bio terrorism

and war.

So one of these chemicals is sarin gas, which is

a neurotoxin that is horrible, and after it's used, it's

left and soaked up by the ground.

Now there is a species of mushrooms that was grown

and can combat sarin gas and consume it and break

it down.

So making the environment around it not poisonous anymore.

Interestingly enough, though, Ah, lot of these neurotoxins are rich

with these phosphorus bonds, and an ally that we've been

using and we can use is Selous Ivy Sinuses.

In other words, magic mushrooms Magic mushrooms on with other

species of mushrooms have the ability to break down these

phosphorus bonds.

So these mushrooms, when placed on a cardboard mat and

placed on the ground, feed off of these neurotoxins and

the toxins in the soil and break him down.

Yeah, interesting stuff.

In fact, in the book Mycelium running, we see this

graph on methods of bio remediation.

On the far left, the highest point we see incinerating

a ton of soil which costs $1500 while on the

far right we see micro remediation using mushrooms and only

costs about $50 per ton of soil.

So there's a vast difference versus destroying the environment further

and using what the environment already has.

So, in conclusion, humanity has created thousands of chemicals and

poisons without thinking about what they might do to the

environment. This has led to thousands of deaths and the

poisoning of our earth.

By using mushroom mycelium and furthering research, the future of

cost effective micro remediation can sustainably heal our planet.

Create a healthier tomorrow.

Thank you.

Mycoremediation - Informative Speech

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