The one simple trick Candle Makers don't want you to know

(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.

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The wax is the fuel…Ah fuck it. Infinite candle. I see nothing wrong with this.
- This is nothing. Try plugging a surge protector into itself. Infinite power!!!
- I want to believe
  
  Light the candle you want to see in the world.
…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.
- 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.
- Those are special candles. Old timey candles dripped wax everywhere.
Without the wick the new candle won’t burn for very long. Or at all.
- it looks like there’s another wick preloaded into the bottom half
  
  Oh yeah, that would work. But only once.
'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.
- 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.
- @lettruthout
  Yeah, I wouldn’t trust this image as far as I could scroll it.
You can just put the candle in the container to begin with haha
this is against the sixth law of thermodynamics which says infinite candles are impossible
Infinite candle glitch
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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