The
New York Times: With higher energy prices seemingly here to
stay, new ways to reduce the resources and energy consumed in
making a wide range of everyday products is becoming
essential.Consider industrial glass, the basic furnace, which
melts sand into glass at extremely high temperatures, hasn't
undergone a fundamental change since the 1850s. Now glassmakers
are developing techniques that radically change the way sand is
melted into glass using ancienttechniques once discarded to
bombarding sand with microwaves.
