(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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…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.