Lightning-powered mushrooms could boost food yields
New research reveals that mushrooms and some vegetables multiply rapidly when struck by lightning.
FRANKENSHROOMS: When struck by lightning, mushrooms multiply rapidly. (Photo: alllyballly/Flickr) Comments
This sounds so interesting. What's the procedure involve to 'electrify' the fungi? How are the plants hooked up to electricity?
I don't get this, wouldn't the mushroom be blown apart by a bolt of lightning? It seems that way when a tree is struck.
Or is my math just wrong... Maybe they are just being sarcastic?
Double IS indeed more than 80%. -_-
100% more = 2x
80% more = 1.8x
Yeah, way to math good sir. This annoys me to no end. Someone needs to go back to grade school. When I see simple math errors like this it completely makes me lose faith in the rest of the article, and even website.
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This sounds so interesting. What's the procedure involve to 'electrify' the fungi? How are the plants hooked up to electricity? Through the roots? I'll be eager to follow this story and see what results from such shocking results
Japan has a problem, they farm the sea and it is declining! can Japanese populations decline to match the food supply? America needs more mushrooms to replace the oil-dependent beef they eat right mow. Oil supplies are threatened in the U.S. by Asian counter-bids in Yuam for finite world oil supplies, and the Yuan will win out as the stronger, more stable currency! Massive population explosion the world has experienced will cause wars for food! Humans cannot waste the way Americans do and.... More
"oil-dependent beef"? You stupid soyfcker, as long as we are alive humans will find a way to slaughter and devour tasty animals with or without oil. You think we will starve to death waiting in line at closed burger joints? Fck that, I'll throw a grenade into the forest and eat whatever gets thrown my way. So have fun being a malnourished skeleton your whole life I'm going to go enjoy a nice, protein-rich steak with the fresh blood of a live baby calf drizzled on top.
hmm.
maybe the tesla coil enthusiasts can try this?
would be an interesting experiment...
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Google this:TED mushroom talk
Paul Stamets is incredible - this is definitely one of the best TED talks ever - who knew mushrooms could feed of RADIATION and etc etc. Good link bro.
so if you zapped magic mushrooms you might also get twice the magic to - booyah [that's psylocibin for the stupidos
Just what I was thinking Jack.
Ugh, I can't even believe this article after that. How does a scientific article screw something like that up!? Also, which had a better yield? Was the shiitake actually 50% or was it 200%?!? I need to know now...
Why human can't grow stronger when electric-shocked for ten-millionth of a second!? I can't wait to see a mushroom farm with lightning effects! It's like Cloudy with a Chance of Meatball the movie. Tour accepted?
"Researchers were able to get the shiitake crop to yield double the amount usually harvested, but the best performing species were nameko mushrooms, which produced a whopping 80 percent more mushrooms."
Surely doubling the yield of shiitake means a 100% increase, making it larger than the increase in nameko mushroom harvest?
This is an example of the poor results the American schools achieve. Or that the editing was done in India.
it said "double the amount usually harvested" not double the amount of mushrooms.
This is an interesting illustration of the way we learn math in this country. I read somewhere that using word problems to illustrate math which deal with slices of pepperoni pizza often led the test taker to focus on the taste of the pizza instead of a successful solution to the math problem...The two paragraphs taken together - from the original NG article - show that the author was indicating the best results with the Shitake mushroom:
"We saw the best effects in shiitake and nameko.... More
Doing math and zapping yourself with electricity at the same time isn't as easy as it sounds.
Perhaps "80% more" was meant to mean four times again? For example, if you have 100 mushrooms after shocking when you would have had 20 normally, what the author meant but didn't properly phrase is '80 is 80% of the final 100 count that you would normally have had.' Seems very unlikely, though.
Regardless, I'd be curious if the flavour or context of the mushrooms would change because of this, in the same way domestically raised strawberries don't have nearly the same level of.... More
