Maybe there’s a way we can get a group together to deploy the right mushroom to clean the biosphere ..I can’t fund something like this but maybe there’s a way to get a bunch of people together to help fund this and deploy it before it’s too late.
I don’t have the time right now to look into this but here’s a link for more info if anyone’s interested:
EDIT: I just found this article with a reference list of mushrooms and what they degrade: https://www.realmushrooms.com/mycoremediation-mushrooms-pollution/#11qmk
We're gonna need something that can degrade vinyl chloride, ethylene glycol monobutyl ether, ethylhexyl acrylate, and isobutylene which are heavily UV resistant so they are going to take awhile to degrade naturally. I haven't taken chemistry in a few years, but just by looking at the reference sheet, I'm thinking the oyster mushroom and king tube mushrooms might be the best contenders.
Great idea but mushrooms not gonna help our atmosphere
The atmosphere will be ok Those chemicals will be dispersed and will eventually break down in UV and oxygen
yeah you are right..the UV and oxygen will break it down in the sky, but the UV index in Ohio is currently zero and only averages up to an 8 in the summer months. That means those molecules aren't going to be absorbing UV in order to break it's current bond and attach to oxygen molecules. Each bond in the chemical compounds require a different amount of UV in order for it to go into oxygen absorption mode. It looks like polymers in the same groups as these chemicals are very resistant to absorbing light https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo-oxidation_of_polymers