(title added for lemmy by community mod)

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.


(Originally published earlier today on aus.social) - Click the Fedi-Link to visit.

  • vampiredeleted by creator
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    3 years ago

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

    • wise_pancake@lemmy.cadeleted by creator
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      3 years 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.

    • Anticorpdeleted by creator
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      3 years ago

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

  • CitizenKong
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    3 years ago

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

  • lettruthout
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    3 years 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.

  • Missmuffet
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    3 years ago

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

  • Avicenna
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    3 years ago

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

  • Feathercrown
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    3 years 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