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Hi all,
I have been having another of my dangerous
conversations with my brother the chemist......Okay you're probably tired of
hearing about these, but he brought up something he learned about the salt
called sodium sulfate dexahydrate, I think, aka glauber's
salt. Apparently glauber's salt (which I used to use for doing dye
work on fabric) is highly efficient at capturing heat and releasing the heat
later. My bro read something to me from one of his chemistry books about a
woman in Mass (I believe he said she is a prof at MIT) who built a house using a
glauber's salt heating system. In that climate it was necessary to build
with a back up heating system, but the article he read to me said that it took
11 consecutive cloudy days to deplete the glauber's salt system. Anybody
heard about this? If anyone knows of any good links to check into, I'd
appreciate it.
Thanks,
Elizabeth
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