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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 24 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] esc27 5 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Light the candle you want to see in the world.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago
[–] CitizenKong 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] CitizenKong 1 points 11 months ago

Oh yeah, that would work. But only once.

[–] lettruthout 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

'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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

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

[–] Missmuffet 8 points 11 months ago

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

[–] iAvicenna 5 points 11 months ago

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

[–] Feathercrown 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Infinite candle glitch