Europe's Gas Crisis Could Shatter A 700-Year-Old Glass Industry In Venice | Still Standing
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- After Russia's invasion of Ukraine, gas prices in Europe hit an all-time high. But glassblowers in Murano have been shutting off their furnaces since last year, when Europe's ongoing gas crisis began. It all comes at a time when the trade is already struggling to bring in the next wave of artists to carry on the legacy of Venetian glass.
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Europe's Gas Crisis Could Shatter A 700-Year-Old Glass Industry In Venice | Still Standing
I'm a lampworker glass blower in the states, we have been very lucky to not have extreme furnace costs and much lower fuel costs. my heart goes out to these folks, i hope they can make it work.
I'll try to keep note of you next time I need a new globe made.
It will go up, just a matter of time
Same dude. I’d apprentice in a heartbeat in murano. Might haveto break the herbies out and transition to Lampworking
Same, if gas prices continue to rise I think a lot of glass blowers will switch to lampworking
you guys use electric from nuclear power right?
I hope Italian politicians are smart enough to realize that these are not just businesses that need financial aid, they're cultural icons that need saving.
That’s why these “businesses” don’t deserve to be businesses at all since it’s unfair to make manual craftsmanship of this quality compete with mass produced glassware.
Those people should be employed and their operations funded by a ministry of culture/arts/turism of some sorts. It’s a travesty that some “artists” make tens of thousands of euros from selling an empty square on the ground with a name on it under the branding of “invisible sculpture” but something that actually takes skill and effort to make is sliding into obscurity.
@@cezarcatalin1406 These glasses are actually very pricy and sold as pieces of art, but I get what you mean
@@cezarcatalin1406 na just pay them to stay home.
don't put 'italian politicians' and 'smart' in the same sentence
the video said they put asidea few million for glass blowes..... glass blowers
I was able to tour one of these glass blowing shops in Venice and watched a guy similar to the man in the video create some incredible pieces. Hopefully they’re able to get through this gas crisis without having to close down.
@@acknowledgedofalltheconseq366 heh.... You think this is stupid? At least it's form of art, and if there's demand then it's not for you to judge, there's much more worse and harmful stuff...
@@acknowledgedofalltheconseq366 And you are certainly doing something very meaningful posting comments on a youtube video.
@@acknowledgedofalltheconseq366 cheating? How?
@@giovannip8600 example of worse and harmful?
@@acknowledgedofalltheconseq366 Why are you wasting time writing on YT, why aren't you producing in a factory? Why are you waching a video produciton, if it is useless, as not "productive"..?
This breaks my heart, my girlfriend learned this craft in a part of Germany, the only place where it's taught these days and she invested a lot of time and money into everything. We are 30 years old and she managed to build a great business over the last years.
There is an art university in Alberta Canada with glass blowing as a class. I’m a student there, though I’m not one of the students taking glass I know the kilns are there with teachers blow pipes and everything.
come to Malaysia gasoline is cheap there!
Glass blowing is taught all over the world
Sounds like Erzgebirge in Saxony
They are famous for glassblowing
There's several places in the part of Sweden where I come from that still teaches glassblowing and sculpting. The part I'm from is known as "Glasriket" in Swedish (Glass kingdom in English) and it's a big area with several different municipalities in a province called Småland, and is well known all around the globe. So no, whatever they said in Germany about that being the only place that still teaches this craft is utter bullshit.
But I sincerely hope she got a great education, glasswork cannot die! It's the most beautiful dance between elements that I know.
Last week in my chemistry lab class, 30 people were standing over one Bunsen burner because we are experiencing huge prices. Usually every pair would do experiment on their own. And such small thing made me realise how bad this is. At first, my uni not heating our classrooms, I was okay, I just dressed warmer and I was good to go. Going with only one car to the city 40km away that we don't have acces to public transport to go by bus, with my whole family and having to wait some days 4 hours for dad to finish his shift so we can go home, was weirdly not a big deal to me, I was like okay, this is how it's gonna be from now on. But chem lab the other day really hit me.
I am really sorry to hear this((
I was so upset that we started a war with Ukraine. But I never realized that cutting gas would hurt Europe, common Russians just don't think of gas as something expensive or important. Anyway, I am not happy this is happening. I wish we will have peace some day.
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this is disheartening to hear. we hear in south Africa have been affected with petrol or what you guys call gas prices going very hey that its coursed our taxy industry to struggle heavily as well. but to think you could not do science properly because of this is so scary and sad to hear. I am so sorry.
What country? Oh my goodness. That sucks
@@Milestone257 Omg I have friend in sout africa, I heard. I didn't even think that this would affect south of africa. I hope we pass this difficult time quickly. Wish you the best💕
Yeah, I’m a former glass artist from California, and gas is so important…Our glass furnace went 24 hours a day! My partner and I were always in a battle to keep the furnace going. When it’s on, the glass can be replenished but when the furnace is off it takes a lot to get it back to making beautiful clear crystal… I miss making this amazing art, but like anything great, it’s hard work…yeah, just to get to the pure glass medium, is an art, that doesn’t include turning it into an art form, finishing the pieces, or ordering expensive color or keeping up with shows and galleries, or packing and shipping…
Isn't it fantastic to live in COMMIEFORNIA? The city of Santa Barbara,California just banned all gas. We are now left to look to all electric for all new construction. I love living here in Santa Barbara, CA with the unbearable taxes, unbearable and untenable business regulations in the name of climate change, and open borders. How do you like them apples as a glass blower?
I'm 24 and live near Venice, I actually tried to apply in some glassblower workshops but I just can't afford it, it seems like in Italy laws go against youngs and then blame it on us saying that's because we are lazy, it makes me so angry
what do u mean..you applied for on the job training in the field and the govt turned you down?
@@fidelcatsro6948 You have to pay for the courses to learn how to blow glass and then you can get hired
@@gaia7240 may i know how much do they cost?
@@fidelcatsro6948 it goes from 200 to 600, I've seen one which was 2000 because it was more prestigious, but you also need to count the train ticket every day
@@gaia7240 i see...😳
they should alternate the times they use the furnace. team up with other glass owners and split the day. some would work in the day others in the night. it would cut cost and also keep more in business
Same amount of gas being used regardless of when you turn the furnace on so it wouldnt help the situation at all. Its not like electric where you generate a flat amount and it is consumed only when its in use. A furnace is constant burning gas flow and will always consume a large amount of gas to operate. If there is a shortage of it then alternating when you dip into the bucket wont leave more in the bucket
Imagine you have two propane tanks full of gas, your suggestion broken down means one furnace from one glass blower uses a can at a later point you tell this other glassblower they can go but the gas is still the same amount left for them.
As for cost how would that save? Employees are still needed...the shop isnt having issues with electric...where would the savings come from? Same material cost since glass doesnt care if its blown at night or middday...just really struggling to get how you thought this out
@@GhostOfBuscemi I assume he means a shared facility for multiple businesses using it during specified shifts.
It would work, but it would probably not ever be implemented or wanted imo
I'm pretty sure it's not just the gas bill that's making their business struggle but maybe their choice to put boobs on everything.
These kinds of situations remind me that while keeping traditions alive, it's important to let them evolve. I'm ignorant of what other means of heating there are that can get to the needed temperatures for glassblowing, but it would be a shame if the art became less common solely because of the gas crisis.
Almost NO other heating technique can get as hot as gas can in order to heat glass especially. "Solar" "Wind" or other "Green Energy" is NEVER gonna cut it. Glass starts being malleable around 2000 degrees, melting point I think around 2100-2200 or so. You CANNOT get any other heating unless it is gas. Even kerosene which is closely related to Gas, only has a max burn temp (even in a furnace) around 500-600 degrees.
@@melwinder1 how did people do it in ancient times then? Did they also have a constant supply of gas like we have today?
Good suggestion, let's make them install solar panels
Yes, you could use wood, but with this kind of stuff, even changing the fuel could have a significant impact on the final product. Look at the difference between gas-oven cooked pizza and wood-oven cooked pizza. Night and day.
@@reeeyaaad they used coal or charcoal
One way for both of these two businesses to survive is by SHARING COST. "A furnance must run 24 hours and stay above 1,000 degrees" - Well the workers do not work 24hours a day.
One business works 8-12 hours and the other business works the other 8-12hrs - SAHRING the same furnance ...... it may not be the best....but it beats going out of business.
All The Best to Both Businesses.
Привет из Сибири Россия уважаю людей каторые своими руками творят чудеса из не чего. Я сам токарь, фрезеровщик, сапожник всегда считал такие професи каторые из не чего делают канфетки благародные. Но люди этого многие не ценят этого а жаль. От себя могу сказать молодцы ребята творите красоту и радость людям. Жаль что молодёж не охотно идёт работать на такие професии. Здоровья вам удачи в делах. Лайк👍👍👍👍👍🤝🤝🤝
Extremely hard and artistic work.Venice cannot be the same without Murano glassware.
If they have to keep the furnace running 24h a day, assuming they work 40h/week, they could have 4 people using a single furnace by staggering their hours. Of course that would mean some people working nights and weekends. I'm sure they've already thought of this, but potentially they could also improve the efficiency of their furnaces by adding more insulation. Or, if it doesn't mess with the necessary airflow, they could add a foot activated door on the front to prevent heat escaping between uses. Would also be cool if there was a way to use the waste heat for something productive, maybe power generation?
I like the way you think.
Someday I will be surrounded by people with minds like yours...
Keep breathing.🙏🌬🙏
You are lost.
@Graham Actually glassblowing furnaces with doors and air injection do exist as far as Google is telling me. But they are expensive. Whatever these glassblowers have in insulation, it is already there, stone and concrete are extremely good insulators as it is that don't burn.
Real productivity has to definitely come from sharing furnaces, but my belief is that these glassblowers are unlikely to do so because it would mean 3 others would have to shut down their furnaces to move their work to another glassblower's workshop because the profession is dying and few new glassblowers without workshops are entering to fully utilize an existing furnace. Potentially costing these glassblowers tens of thousands of dollars to replace the cracked crucible and furnace as well as weeks of setup when they eventually move back when gas prices stabilize.
Why would they innovate towards higher efficiency like communist China when they could just get more subsidy the capitalist European way lol.
...not the way of Italy
Chiara is Awesome... I have great admiration for her traditional talent & creativity 👍 Hope they can find a way to continue...
When I was younger I wanted to be a glass maker. I actually learned about a glass school that's less then a mile from a house I used to live at, right before the covid-19 shut down. I was going to sign up for classes, the week of the shutdown..
Similar to thousands of jobs kill by price of oil, it is a slow death that other means can safe this traditional trade or skills, at the moment it is just to put food on the table only, this art skill cannot survive without real assistance, it needs help to prevent to heat from dying.
Things like this will be the least of our problems. The high cost of energy will put us back to the dark ages.
@@minuteman4199 for a while perhaps. The second nuclear is implemented on a wider scale, the energy crisis should be gone
Electric furnaces are a option, but the price to upgrade to the newest equipment and the lack of infrastructure is just as big of a problem. Almost anything that can be done with gas/oil can be done via electricity, but the problem is to convince enough people to begin the immense task of making the change.
@@minuteman4199 l agreed till fusion is the reality, hope for future mankind, but we just assumed that things remain at it is and hope that energy issue can be solved i.e. fusion is the best hope, not in our lifetime
@@Ivi-Tora True, especially with the immense cost. It's hard enough to pay for the high gas costs, but getting the new equipment on top of that is going to be hard. It'll be easier in the US for some folks, being then that depends on their specific situation. It'll likely be harder to convince the older folks, but for younger ones, they likely _want_ to move to electric, bit don't have the budget to do so, or are in a place where either the shipping would be expensive or some other reason.
I got a suggestion: they should group. The furnace stands untouched for 50% of the time. Just work in turns in the same furnace.
The planet is more important than any industry.
The planet is stronger than you think. Humans are not. Humans will rape and pillage the earth for scarce resources as times get harder. A fair balance of nature and humanity is what is needed. Right now we are on a bullet train to desctruction
Beautiful story and skills, wish them the best 💥❤💥.
I thought this was going to be a story where all the different gas blowers decided the smart thing to do would be to share each other furnaces in shifts.
That would be really stupid, nit least because it would destroy the untested furnaces which would need to be rebuilt later at great cost, as explained in the video.
@@horsemumbler1 just have them run till the end of times burning money intead then 😳
Most glassblowers are very egotistical and vain,not to mention come from wealth. The last thing they would do is share the stage with another glassblower
The petrol prices in my country also change by a huge margin. I just hope these companies are not using the war as an excuse and the price is 100% due to Russia.
Oh no why would they do that. Remember it's only temporary I know y'all remember the Iraq war days. It'll go down eventually
@@lilcreaper007 Okay, I hope so. 👍
It's probably a mix of both. Gas companies aren't your friend though, the people running them will use any excuse they can to charge as much as possible.
It's a combanation of cuases. Covid is a massive cause aswell and if you live in America Government policy have increased it massivly aswell. 90 dollars a barrel just before Russia. That alone was a 75% increase from the year prior. The russia situation has increased it 40% from that in just a month.
War has always been a money making scheme for MANY of the top elite.
Murano should look to Seattle’s Studio Art Glass producers. Shared studios surround large, efficient furnaces that are utilized 24/7. It also fosters natural artistic collaboration to occur
Yeah that sounds like a good idea.
Murano being a small island does not help.. And with lots of old rivalities going on, it does not help either.
What studios operate 24/7? I can't think of anyone who does that.
That would be plain impossible in Murano: the surface of the island is just below 1 square mile, cut through by dozens of canals and usually packed full with tourists. The studios are minuscule to begin with, and building new furnaces on an island that is quite literally built on stilts would be unfeasible (and I'm pretty sure heavily regulated by the government). There's simply no space to do what we do in Seattle
She put the inheritance from her mothers death in just to keep the business alive 😦
Yeah things in general are not doing great, I used mine to pay bills because I'm unimployed, I also had to sell the car
@@gaia7240 I'm really sorry to hear that :(
I'm sure whoever thought of that title felt so proud of themselves lol
This video shows the issue in a crystal clear way, is mind blowing.
Slow clap
@@dianap6662 those ladies are breaking the glass ceiling
Wow! It is great to see a documentary that was created some days ago!
Wow
I was sooo waiting to see that glass candle and the glass Venus … amazing ! Hope everything will okay soon .
AP Art History coming in clutch. I am pretty sure the prehistoric Venus statue is the Venus of Willendorf.
I feel bad for them but how did they do it 700 years ago when the shop opened? I'm sure propane wasnt the fuel, going back to traditional techniques usually fetches higher prices.
Very simply. demand was less and coal was used.
@@boredomindex3353 I wonder if a solar powered fan blowing charcoal would get hot enough
@@heavymetalbassist5 noone would let them burn coal, char or not, within city premises
Charcoal. Of course it was less streamlined and a real luxury good
Wood fueled the glass industry, in fact much of Europe was deforested to keep the glass industry going. There are electric glass furnaces and glory holes.
I love how this channel is showing these beautiful and priceless pieces that need to be shared with the world! All of these struggling businesses deserve a shot in today's market, and by spreading the word, we may be able to make a difference by buying from these vendors! I would love to have a piece by any of them! 🥰
Beautifully produced. Love the SFX and transitions during the historical recounting bits!
i love glass work, i live everything that is transparent , colorful and fragile.
I believe “gas crise” could shatter EVERY business 🙃
If you can make glass into different things, you can lead the world.
"The value of a master is by teaching and leaving a legacy"
Wise words to live by
I was one of the tourists and still have the horse! From 1990!
This is terrible … in Michigan USA , I know of at least 5 glassblowing studios were closed indefinitely over the 2 years of COVID restrictions. This may hit home folks … support your artist community
Blame the Khazarian globalist bankers NOT the scamdemic for the shutdown of all industries on the planet.
What did they use before gas? How about electric furnaces driven by wind/tidal/solar powar?
Probalby doesn't give the desired effect or is just not worth the extra initial cost. And what they used before gas was wood fires.
Renewables will never be able to achieve the required heat for modern glass, it won't even be able to achieve the heat by medieval smelting methods. Before gas they used wood, and it burned cooler and thus glass back then could only be made into small simple shapes. Hence why old cathedral windows were mosaics instead of a single solid pane.
Electric could absolutely get hot enough
It would be three times the gas price even with the current state of it, bcs "renewable" energy is garbage
@@meltdown4126 solar is the cheapest energy to date. besides creating your daily food and oxygen.
Fascinating craft! I hope that these traditions can be continued despite the greed and power plays affecting gas prices!!!!
100% good working so nice job ...,
I wonder if you can create these temps with an alternative fuel like wood or politicians.
Bad time to be running a business
Not necessarily, if it's online for example
I love what you'll are going! Trust all works in your favor!🙏🏻☯️
That's dope 👍
What did they do 700 years ago when they didn't have gas?
Firewood? That they maybe keep turns burning 24/7? Just a guess
Okay but heating your coffee with molten glass is genius
free energy otherwise wasted away into the environment
Fantastico video!
I've been to Venice and seen them at work. Guy made a horse so effortlessly and could tell he's perfected his craft was awesome to see
“Shatter” on the title. I see what you did there
The thing is that venecian glass was already super expensive because they charged a hefty premium to tourists
Funny because 95% of stores in Venice don't sell actual murano glass. It's usually fake, mass produced glass that they say it's from murano but it's not and you pay like it is
its like selling a Ferrari
I love it! 💙
Nice video.
I had no idea they have been importing gas for 700 years
That's what I was thinking. Probably the gas temperature is only needed for the clear glass that is only a hundred years old?
They used coal before 1950s.
Here we are, worrying that our bill is going up by £100 next month. You can't even guess what their monthly gas bill is.
5k
For £100 the Murano maestros will give you the scraps of glass they dusted off the ground after a hard day's work in their laboratory. The pieces you see making have a price tag of >1500 pounds.
Awesome
👍👌👏 2) It's incredibly important for Italy and mankind that they all are able to survive. Thanks a lot for making teaching explaining recording editing uploading and sharing.
Best regards luck and especially health to all involved people.
You could use electric furnaces, running off renewables or nuclear. The torches can still use gas but are a small % of the amount needed. This was a political CHOICE to have it still be this way by where money and regulation approval was or was not sent for new power plants.
Yeah, the fear of nuclear energy (the safest source of energy, most effective and least deaths) is quite ridiculous. Starting to change now tho.
Most efficient*
electric cost 10X more than using fuel. nobody wants to buy a $5000 glass horse.
@@kioshiro482 1) It costs about 2x mayyybe 3x more depending your location, not "10x more". 2) It costs 2x more because the EU continues to refuse to build large numbers of nuclear plants, wind, solar, and other things to actually solve the problem, out of laziness and greed. Again, contact your local representatives in politics, with your complaints, about why they got you here over decades, not weeks. And/or review your own voting history.
A lot of places actually burn natural gas to create electricity
It's funny because what they called "gas" actually liquid
It seems like most of the comments are suggesting they share a furnace and work in shifts. First of all, they already do that. Second, you cant pull glass out of a furnace 24 hours a day without "charging" the furnace with more clear glass (comes in small chunks called cullet.) This introduces lots of tiny bubbles into the pot and it takes time for them to float to the surface. That's what the night is used for, charge at the end of a work shift and let the new chunks of glass melt into liquid.
I like the master glassblowers attitude about sharing and passing on knowledge.
I would have thought that since Murano glass is already a luxury item used by designers for their own projects ( I think Barber Osgerby had some vases done) that perhaps they should pass the cost down to customers. I would imagine they have more to spend after Covid as the rich mostly just got richer. I don't know if there is a long-term alternative method they could switch to.
Playing Sanction game by USA is very disastrous for whole Countries. Many countries have already suffered heavily in their economy due to Covid-19.
So we should just allow Russia to invade its neighbors with no consequences? Because that doesn't seem like a very good idea to me
@@Arrica101 perhaps not but the cost might be disastrous.
@@Arrica101 none of your business anyway
better high prices of energy than war
@@d3r4g45 how is war tied to freezing to death in your home?
What puzzling me is that these glassware pieces are really high end products so I do not really understand how the price of energy is really impacting them ...a little bit like if Rolls Royce or Rolex would say they are impacted by the price of metals /alloys !
To give you an example you easily spend 1000$ for a simple basic 7 inches vase .
They aren't that expensive.
The retail price in fancy stores is often 300% of what dealers pay to the glassblowers.
Of you pay a vase from them 250$ the glassblower likely got paid 100$ and of that 30%-40% goes away in taxes (as the Italian taxes are massive) so for 2ppl there is left roughly 30$ each for 2 hours of work. If the gas cost triples and now they need to spend 20$+ in gas for making the vase and they of course have other maintenance expenses the results are that they are working for below 10$/h and might have days with little to no clients in particular since covid reduced tourist buyers. So in a 10h day they might end up taking home 40$... That's far far lower than minimum wage.
@@MrRedsjack But a lot of them are also retailers . Look at their sites, they produce and sell online . I know it is not as expensive as Baccarat but it is quite dear .
Good job. Passion for the art ♥
The famous mourano glass from Venice.
Is great I been there
It's funny because they didn't have gas powered torches 700 years ago yet they need it now somehow. I use a natural stone pipe and it does not break.
You like polluting then
@@gaia7240 700 years ago men built an actual fire pit thing to melt and blow glass but now all the sudden they cant function without gas to have a fire. What a joke.
@@JustinKruger336 they used wood.. Do I have to explain it?
@@gaia7240 back then there were more trees and grow faster like hemp and bamboo and other secret arts and there can be more trees again if people would stop plowing them all to build apartments and such.
@@JustinKruger336 again, that would pollute the air
Doesn't help that there were certain people that warned the EU of being dependent on Russia and the leaders just laughed and one said, "You still living in the 80s?"
And Germany shutting down nuclear left, and right.
4:20 When the term "pass the torch" becomes quite literal
Sincerely hoping for the best for your business madam. You guys make beautiful artwork, that would be a shame to lose..
I wonder if inductive heaters could be used to keep the furnace heated up to 1000 degrees C just so they can turn off the gas without cooling the furnace entirely
to use inductive heating you need a susceptor against the rf like carbide. very expensive
better to use solar molten salt technology...another cheap way is to set up a foundry somewhere near an active volcanic site
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I've seen this place before! We went to the island when I was 12 (3 years ago)
Iv been to this island off venice. They even have a glass beach:) i collected the scraps for fun to keep. Very cool place. And the store has very nice glass to purchase. The state should help the island stay afloat!
This would require a lot of innovation, but what about setting up green energy such as wind/solar to hydrolyze water. H2 and O2 burn a lot hotter and could potentially be better than carbon based gas.
Maybe in the future Venice could turn the Lagoon into a power source for that.
The problem with that is that there is no reliable network of H2 or O2 pipelines (probably bc these 2 gases are way more volatile than fossile gas). Thus it is not viable for this kind of business
@@aletec96 also both "green" solutions are terrible for the environment. Rare earth production for panels is extremely damaging and wind turbines completely decimate local avian population plus any possible migratory species. Stop drinking the liberal kool-aid. It's bullshit. Always has been. Wake up.
Would require alot of innovation. Biggest understatement ever said.
@@kev_1453 still better than fossil fuels tho
These poor people. They can't blow glass because Ukrainians are being bombed and murdered by their neighbors. I couldn't imagine suffering from increased costs at a time like that.
Its all ur west faults, why are u crying now?
@@yondayyon4131 this makes no sense. Did you want to try again?
Hahaha
I see what you did in the title!🤣😂
Have always been fascinated by glass blowing since reading German children's novels during my childhood, but got interested specially today due to finishing a Donna Leone novel, THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY, where I learnt so much about the industry and about Italian life also. It's a detective story where the police officer tries to trace a murder in a glass factory related to issues of protests by environmentalists about dangerous chemicals used in glassblowing, though there's a larger, modern factory that gives off far more dangerous pollutants. There are a few glass blowers here in Chiang Mai, Thailand - I saw them one time at the Sunday Walking Street market.
Bravissime! Forza ragazze 💪
oh yes everybody needs a glass horse, where would we be without glass horses lmao
Having a bad day?
While many loose lives and remaining fear for their lives at any given time. Europeans talk about this.
Bravo !! 💯
How unfortunately. I love visiting Venice and buying glass sculptures. Greetings from Germany and good luck.🍀
3:06 'Russia has been limiting supply', 'gas prices have gone up after Russia's invasion of Ukraine'. Europe sanctioned Russia and basically stopped importing Russian oil is the actual story. If anyone wondered how people could twist facts, there you go.
Exactly. Russia is still exporting gas. The prices only skyrocket due to the gambling/trading with gas.
Why are you mixing oil and gas?
Russia started to limit the gas outflow in January in order to make prices higher and to remind Europe how dependant it is on the gas needle.
@@victorialaitarenko7737 The author of the video is mixing facts. Russia is honoring the gas export contracts and is not liming the flow. Fear on the market is the reason for these extreme prices.
@@victorialaitarenko7737 Or in other news Europe has been dependent on Russia for gas but decries the need for gas and they want to reduce gas imports. EU has sanctioned Russia, its only a matter of time before Russia retaliates with cutting supply
Glassblowing is an expensive luxury, both to produce and to purchase. If the glassblowers can't afford the fuel they will have to find other work. Nobody ever claimed art degrees pay well...
Great craft, must keep it alive
Italy needs a government culture fund for these cultural treasures.
700 years and you don’t think they can make it through a gas price hike? Come on
It's crazy how Russia's war affected all of us.
And half brained western zombies eat all the pestilence that get served by western MSM media, such as story that this is Russia's "fault"
Putin left the chat..
very interesting
yea, some people are closing shops and some are literally fighting for their lives
Noice !!!!! Russia for the Win , Lots of love from India.
Glass blowing is a luxury industry. It's sad they are struggling but, I mean, it's not really the end of the world.
It is, it's people identity, basically venicians are dying out, we have lost lots of culture
Very dope
4:35 Tony stark in an alternative universe teaching her daughter glass art
Went to italy and got a glass dolphin. Shattered it not to long after
You'll have to go back and get a bigger dolphin
The steel industry heats steel almost exclusively with electricity. Electric furnaces are very, very plausible. Adaptation is possible and with a big wind and solar presence energy independence IS possible with continued innovation including energy storage solutions like improved batteries. Keep the push going! We have made big progress but have alot of work left to go in order to rely only on renewable energy
You’re living in a fantasy if you think energy independence through green energy is possible.
Electricity is more expensive than gas. If they can't afford gas they'll be even more hard pressed to afford electricity.
Knowledge is wasted if only one person has it. It’s so important to share knowledge so skills are not forgotten
So how did they blow glass before gas burners on the island? Can they coal fire? Can charcoal with forced induction reach the temps needed? Wood gasifier?
A furnace isn't the problem as money comes and goes and comes again; but Boomers dying not sharing art is a dead art.
Switch to electric.
This is what the entire industry needs to be doing. I switched everything in my house to electric versions years ago and all of the appliances work better than their gas versions, they don't pollute the indoor air quality, and they're powered by a grid that's constantly adding greener sources of power.
i want some chic yellow glass blower glasses for when im stoking my wood gas boila. nice tip.
i use the polish orlan eko 25kw. 1500lbs weight. sorry to mix metric and imperial units in the same post. do the math, neeeeerd.
Some things just don’t survive the tempestuous times we humans create for ourselves.