damnitwhatisthecatdoing:shinkoukei:icetigris:maladicta:ryangoodtimes:wolfdancer:Fire glass produces

damnitwhatisthecatdoing:shinkoukei:icetigris:maladicta:ryangoodtimes:wolfdancer:Fire glass produces more heat than real wood, and also is environmentally friendly. There is no smoke, it’s odorless and doesn’t produce ash. You are able to stay toasty warm without cutting down trees and the specially formulated glass crystals give off no toxic deposit.Holy shit it really existsmain benefit: it looks a lot like sorcery See also:Fire ballsand it’s not expensive!!How is it produced though?Even though using these things is environmentally friendly in itself, and even though it’s great that one does not cut down trees for this(not that firewood is the main reason for deforestation. plenty of cultures depend on firewood for hearthfire, cooking, smithing, etc. without that being a main contributor to mass deforestation), that doesn’t guarantee that the way the product is produced is environmentally friendly or does not create toxic waste as a byproduct in the process, or if it takes a lot of energy to produce the item, which would require using energy from sources that might not be environmentally friendly. Looking it up, fire glass is actualy just tempered glass in fancy presentation, granulated or in decorative shapes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toughened_glass#ManufacturingAlso, did you think the fire glass is what is burning in these pictures? It is not. All fire glass does, is retain the heat and refract the light from burning gas that comes from a source underneath the granulated glass you see in the pictures. “Fire glass does not burn, but retains heat and refracts light as a result of burning gas. Fire glass (like artificial logs and stones) is additionally used to obscure the gas plumbing inherent in gas fireplaces or stoves”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_glassFireglass does not burn, it’s mainly decorative, like fake logs and stones, but holds a bit better onto the heat and distributes the light a bit better than those do.So, fire glass does not replace firewood in this equation. Gas does.And if you haven’t forgotten, gas production is not always so environmentally friendly, is it? Even though producers of “natural gas” try to sell it as emission free, as it does not emit toxic waste or climate gases when it is burned, that doesn’t mean that it is harvested in an environmentally safe manner. Ever heard of fracking? -- source link

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