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Piwoslaw · 03-11-2010, 06:00 AM

I was looking through old PopSci magazines and I found an article about using a thermos with molten salt to keep the engine's heat (Popular Science, June 1994, p.38).
It's called a Schatz heat battery and was apparently available in 1994 VW Golfs and Jettas. I wonder how well this system worked, and if it can still be found in junk yards?

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Piwoslaw aero guerrilla Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Warsaw, Poland Posts: 3,747 Svietlana II - '13 Peugeot 308SW e-HDI 6sp 90 day: 58.1 mpg (US) Thanks: 1,328 Thanked 749 Times in 476 Posts	I was looking through old PopSci magazines and I found an article about using a thermos with molten salt to keep the engine's heat (Popular Science, June 1994, p.38). It's called a Schatz heat battery and was apparently available in 1994 VW Golfs and Jettas. I wonder how well this system worked, and if it can still be found in junk yards? __________________ e·co·mod·ding: the art of turning vehicles into what they should be What matters is where you're going, not how fast. "... we humans tend to screw up everything that's good enough as it is...or everything that we're attracted to, we love to go and defile it." - Chris Cornell [Old] Piwoslaw's Peugeot 307sw modding thread Last edited by Piwoslaw; 03-11-2010 at 06:15 AM..