Sam Shoemaker’s record-setting voyage shows the promise – and limits – of fungi as a plastic alternative

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Well, he seems like a pretty fun-
Zip, splat, thud, crack.

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    TLDR; he cultivated some mycelium from a mushroom called “Ganoderma polychromum mycelium outside his Los Angeles studio”. Used a hemp substrate around a fiber glass boat mold, and then dried it over several months. He calls the resulting material AquaFung.

    Great start, but coming in with a kayak weight of 107 lbs compared to most kayaks being below 45lbs will give them quite the challenge to overcome with this AquaFung, but it’s pretty promising.

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