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The one simple trick Candle Makers don't want you to know (mediacdn.aus.social)
submitted 8 months ago by dgar@aus.social to c/tails@lemmon.website
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Image description: Four images showing a candle burning down with the melting wax being collected inside a transparent candlestick resulting in another candle being formed.

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[-] vampire@lemmy.world 24 points 8 months ago

The wax is the fuel…Ah fuck it. Infinite candle. I see nothing wrong with this.

[-] esc27@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

This is nothing. Try plugging a surge protector into itself. Infinite power!!!

[-] abbadon420@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

I want to believe

[-] Hupf@feddit.de 2 points 8 months ago

Light the candle you want to see in the world.

[-] the_third@feddit.de 21 points 8 months ago

…wat? The candles I’ve seen in my life so far have just burned all their wax, except maybe the really thick ones, but we’re talking upper leg diameter here.

If they’re dripping that much wax you really have some bad candles.

[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 months ago

I think there might be some savings here, less wax is heated by the candle, so less will evaporate. But I don’t know enough about candles to know whether that’s significant.

At best this gives a marginal increase in duration for the price of twice as much wick.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Those are special candles. Old timey candles dripped wax everywhere.

[-] lettruthout@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

'Having trouble believing that the wax wouldn’t cool before it got much beyond the flame, much less all the way to the bottom of that container.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 8 months ago

It would be far better to just recycle the wax left over normally. Especially because most of it actually does burn in a typical candle design.

[-] dgar@aus.social 3 points 8 months ago

@lettruthout
Yeah, I wouldn’t trust this image as far as I could scroll it.

[-] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

Without the wick the new candle won’t burn for very long. Or at all.

[-] atkion@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago

it looks like there’s another wick preloaded into the bottom half

[-] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Oh yeah, that would work. But only once.

[-] Missmuffet@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

You can just put the candle in the container to begin with haha

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

this is against the sixth law of thermodynamics which says infinite candles are impossible

[-] HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 8 months ago

Infinite candle glitch

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

I like how you can see it would only give you about 1/3 of the candle back (3rd image), because the wax is what burns

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