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Letter: Cool it

Published 30 October 2013

From Andy Grove

Feedback reports surprise at a technical detail for the manufacture of the WoodMiser, a metal mesh said to improve the efficiency of a woodburner (5 October). Whether it works to increase burning efficiency I don’t know. However, what seemed to be the focus of your attention was that its construction involves “fast-cooling special metal fibres at a staggering rate of 1 million degrees per second”.

Sounds preposterous? Well, amorphous metals are created in just that way.
Brighton, East Sussex, UK

Issue no. 2941 published 2 November 2013

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