Transparent Wood

[unassuming]

This is pretty cool

Wood can easily be turned transparent to make energy-saving windows

Standard glass windows like these could one day be replaced by wood Transparent wood just got even better, moving us a step closer to windows that are far better insulators than traditional glass ones. The standard process for making wood transparent typically involves soaking the wood in a vat...

www.newscientist.com

 

[Robert Mugabe]

This is pretty cool

Wood can easily be turned transparent to make energy-saving windows

Standard glass windows like these could one day be replaced by wood Transparent wood just got even better, moving us a step closer to windows that are far better insulators than traditional glass ones. The standard process for making wood transparent typically involves soaking the wood in a vat...

www.newscientist.com

Good news for glass. Bad news for wood. What's wrong with double pane insulation? I was once trying to return some broken glass to get it recycled. I phoned a glass company to find out where to take it. They told me it goes in a land fill. I said WTF? If any material is easily recyclable is should be glass I would have thought. Just melt it down and make something else?

 

[Valcazar]

It's a cool application. I could see it for use in places where you need the better insulation and windows you don't really intend to open.
I wonder how easy it is to clean?

 

[nervousintheservice]

Is transparent wood the first step to the Enterprise coming back in time and showing us how to make Transparent Aluminum?

 

[unassuming]

It could be an advantage for burglars, there would be no shattering sound like glass breaking.

Would it be water proof? as wood would warp and rot if exposed to water too long.

 

[chodge]

Is transparent wood the first step to the Enterprise coming back in time and showing us how to make Transparent Aluminum?