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Newcastle's Farrell Centre explores if we can grow houses from fungus
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A new £4.6m architecture centre is opening with an exhibition showing how we might soon be able to grow buildings from fungus, and other innovative ways to reduce cities' environmental impact.

The Farrell Centre, set up and partly funded by architect Sir Terry Farrell, opens in Newcastle on Saturday.

Its opening exhibition sees four architecture studios offer visions for making buildings more sustainable.

They include a structure grown from mycelium, the root network of fungus.

The mycelium has been grown on a knitted canopy made from sawdust and paper waste, creating strong, light, self-repairing and fully compostable walls.

That is "completely at odds with how most buildings are built, which usually involves lots of concrete and steel and glass", said Farrell Centre director Owen Hopkins.
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Dunmers tend to also live in fungi houses

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Time_Traveller wrote: Thu Apr 27, 2023 7:10 pm Newcastle's Farrell Centre explores if we can grow houses from fungus
Morrowind anyone?
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🚂✈ freight traffic in the USA 1865-1995

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Total railway freight traffic in the United States of America in:
● 1865 - 3.15 billion metric ton per km
● 1895 - 124 billion metric ton per km
● 1925 - 609 billion metric ton per km

Total air freight traffic in the United States of America in:
● 1935 - 0.0076 billion metric ton per km
● 1965 - 2.95 billion metric ton per km
● 1995 - 21 billion metric ton per km
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Gas Car Sales Collapsing in China first and then in Europe
May 4, 2023 by Brian Wang
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2023/05/g ... urope.html
There were 3.4 million cars on dealer lots in February 2023 and there were about 4 million at the end of March 2023. 75% of the cars are ICE (Internal combustion engine).

Ford revealed their EV division financials for Q1 2023. Ford is taking about $110,000 to make $55,000 BEVs. Ford is losing about $50,000 to $60,000 for each electric car that they make. GM and Renault and other legacy car makers are also losing massive amounts for each electric car that they make. Ford is the second largest electric car maker by unit volume in for US sales.

The China market is about one to two years ahead of Europe in the transition to EVs and about three to four years ahead of the United States. The US needs large volumes of big electric pickups and large electric SUVs. Japanese car makers make almost no BEVs. Japanese car makers have already lost over 30% of their car sales in China. All legacy car makers of gasoline cars will lost another 20% of their China sales in the remainder of 2023. China ICE sales will be halved again in 2024.
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wjfox wrote: Fri May 12, 2023 12:18 pm
What about motorbikes?
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