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Old 08-21-2013, 03:16 PM   #33 (permalink)
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If you wanna store heat...

... then there are better solutions than just plain water like a container of salt with a high melting point; when it cools down the solidification yields a lot of extra heat.

You could keep the installation lighter and smaller for the same capacity, or get more capacity for the same weight.

Of course systems like these have been discussed before at ecomodder
(just rubbing my 2 grams of salt into the discussion)
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