Portobello mushrooms may one day help power your cell phone.
“Your phone might someday be powered by portobello mushrooms”
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While it isn’t happening right now, a new scientific paper shows that it is possible to make batteries out of organic biological materials. The batteries are a new kind of lithium-ion battery that uses portobello mushrooms. Surprisingly, the mushrooms turned out to be so efficient that they could eventually replace the industry standard of synthetic graphite.
I am totally into this idea. I personally don’t enjoy eating porobello mushrooms, so why not just slap them into a phone? Even though it’s much more complicated than that, I think this could be a great invention. While we are at it, lets continue to use foods to replace other technologies. How about we use avocado’s as a source of ram for devices? I mean it is considered a super food.
On a more serious note, this could totally be beneficial. This innovation would affect multiple industries. Biological materials cost less which would enable us to bring costs down and expend less energy in manufacturing. Not only that, but with graphite batteries, the batteries decrease overtime. However, this new technology is actually estimated to improve over time. So its essentially a win-win. Not only is this being kind to the earth but it is also a better way of supplying energy.