Transparent Wood

[unassuming]

This is pretty cool

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

Glass windows are notoriously bad at keeping buildings insulated, and a simple new process for making sturdy transparent wood could provide a solution

www.newscientist.com

 

[Robert Mugabe]

This is pretty cool

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

Glass windows are notoriously bad at keeping buildings insulated, and a simple new process for making sturdy transparent wood could provide a solution

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?