Comment on ‘A very Finnish thing’: Big sand battery starts storing wind and solar energy in crushed soapstone
lime@feddit.nu 21 hours agodepends. wood stoves put out a metric shitton of heat, no matter how hot their surroundings. the more of it you capture, the less wood you need. we have a massive old stone oven that takes a week to heat up but then keeps above ambient for like two-three. it’s several m^3^ in size, the house is built around it. it also keeps the house cool in summer by absorbing heat.
bstix@feddit.dk 20 hours ago
Oh sure the technique of storing heat in stone is valid. Again, the Finnish have used it for long time in oven design. It’s possible to get modern soap stone ovens for this purpose.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masonry_heater