Safe Bonfire accelerant?

link for 100% natural fire lighters

 

Oh I love these types of products and we're so gullible for them too.   It's wood and vegetable oil made into fireligters with lots of eco-green words marketing, like "biomass" ,"sustainable" &  "biodegradable".  Problem is it costs £2 for 28 lighters.  It has to be manufactured and transported to you so obviously there's lots of energy used up in the forestry production, manufacturing and transportation process which usually gets glossed over.  You've had to earn the money to buy it which wasn't zero energy or carbon neutral. 

There's a well known law in science which basically says you can never have a free lunch there's no such thing as a perpetual motion machine.  Once you burn that energy it's lost forever.  It's all about efficiency really the more value we can extract from waste materials so we don't need to manufacture things needlessly the better in my view.  To use manufactured materials to burn your waste is the ultimate in green nonsense.

As you may have noticed I'm very skeptical about the green industry generally there's a lot of hair-brained schemes with a good marketing story out there and politicians love to be associated with anything which can superficially demonstrate their green credentials.  I don't think you will be saving the planet by using these.

HF

So many good ideas, I reckon this one is great! 

I use my weed wand on a small amount of paper & card followed by twigs & bit of wood, & as said before feed slowly with bigger bits until it is well a blaze