Latest · Theoretical studies · Oct 17, 2026 · 21 min read

Blowing Glass in Lima

Lima is an easy place to melt glass and a hard place to sell it — cheap piped gas, a mining economy that digs up every oxide in a glass batch, and a city of eleven million buying its glass from somewhere else. A hot shop here costs about $380,000 to build and $350,000 a year to run, and the constraint is not energy but demand.