# Water as heat storage

**URL:** http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/water-as-heat-storage/2885
**Category:** Off Topic
**Tags:** solar, thermal, off-grid
**Created:** [December 11, 2016, 11:42pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/water-as-heat-storage/2885 "2016-12-11T23:42:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![BrianHWA](http://forum.driveonwood.com/user_avatar/forum.driveonwood.com/brianhwa/32/11361_2.png) [@BrianHWA](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/BrianHWA)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2017, 4:20am UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/water-as-heat-storage/2885/41 "2017-01-11T04:20:01Z")

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> [@SteveUnruh](#):
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> Now my wife will not even let me put “an ugly black-box” fully advanced 21st century stove into our living spaces.No-o-o-o. Has to be “pretty” cream colored porcelain enameled dust-catcher, beauties. Sigh. Possible. For a 30% greater price. An ~10% loss in transfer efficiency.

Maybe get an efficient “ugly black box” and surround it in pretty thermal-mass cobblestone? 🙂

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### Author: ![DanNH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v2/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@DanNH](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/DanNH)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2017, 4:40am UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/water-as-heat-storage/2885/42 "2017-01-11T04:40:23Z")

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Get a soapstone stove they look great and the high thermal mass. I love the one I have here.

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